Acknowledgement
This study was supported by the Post-Master's Programme of the National Forest Seed & Variety Center and the R&D Programme for Forest Science Technology (Project No. FTIS 2020182B10-2022-BB01) provided by the Korea Forest Service (Korea Forestry Promotion Institute).
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