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    Mitsuhiro Horade, Naoki Yanagisawa, Yoko Mizuta, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Hideyuki Arata
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    Meng-Gai Jiao, Hu-Jun Qian, Alister James Page, Kai Li, Ying Wang, Zhijian Wu, Stephan Irle, and Keiji Morokuma
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    Lilia Lohrey, Takahiro N. Uehara, Satoshi Tani, Junichiro Yamaguchi,* Hans-Ulrich Humpf,* and Kenichiro Itami*
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    Takeshi Mizuno, Aya Takeuchi, Yuji Nomoto, Norihito Nakamichi & Takafumi Yamashino
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  • Synthesis and Dimerization of Chloro[10]cycloparaphenylene: A Directly Connected Cycloparaphenylene Dimer

    Yuuki Ishii, Sanae Matsuura, Yasutomo Segawa, and Kenichiro Itami*
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    Taishi Nishihara, Yasutomo Segawa, Kenichiro Itami and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu*
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  • Spatial distribution of the RABBIT EARS protein and effects of its ectopic expression in Arabidopsis thaliana flowers

    Seiji Takeda, Mariko Noguchi, Yuki Hamamura, Tetsuya Higashiyama
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    Smitha C. Matthew, Ben W. Glasspoole, Patrick Eisenberger, and Cathleen M. Crudden*
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