Characterization of the pyruvate kinase gene family in soybean and identification of a putative salt responsive gene GmPK21.

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"Funding This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U22A20467 and 32301905); Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2020QC119); Agricultural Variety Improvement Project of Shandong Province (2021LZGC003), China Agriculture Research System (CARS-04-CES12) and Agricultural Scientific and Technological Innovation Project of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CXGC2023A02). All of the genome sequences data of soybean cultivar Zhonghuang13 were downloaded from the Genome Warehouse (GWH) database in the BIG Data Center under Accession Number GWHAAEV00000000.1"