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Acknowledgements 
This study was supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grants to PR, most 
recently as BSR-8906848. We are grateful to Peter C. Hoch for his comments on the 
manuscript, and to many people who have collected plant materials for this study, 
as noted in Table 1. 
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