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The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available in the NCBI repository: GenBank bioproject_accession number: PRJNA692305.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the Plant Pathology Laboratory at the College of Plant Protection and the High Latitude Crops Institute of Shanxi Agricultural University for providing the fungal isolates and flax seeds. Similarly, they acknowledge Editage (www.editage.cn) for English language editing.
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This study was financially supported by the Research Projects of Excellent Doctors’ Work Award Fund of Shanxi Province, China (SXYBKY2018045) and by the Key Research and Development Program of Shanxi Province (201903D211001–1).
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Yingdong Chang, Jianming Wang Conceiving, designing and executing the experiments was done by Rui He and Jianming Wang. Data analysis and preparation of figures and tables was performed by Rui He. Field experiments were managed by Rui He and Yingdong Chang. All authors discussed the results, and read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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He, R., Chang, Y. & Wang, J. Identification of genes responsible for stress resistance in fusarium oxysporum- inoculated flax seedlings using weighted gene co-expression network analysis. Eur J Plant Pathol 163, 513–528 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-022-02497-8
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