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September Online Cover: Characterization of lotus seed development; fresh weight, dry weight, and moisture content of developing seeds; optical microscope photographs of iodized slices of mature seed and rhizome; and Venn diagrams of differentially expressed genes, from “Differential expression involved in starch synthesis pathway genes reveal various starch characteristics of seed and rhizome in lotus (Nelumbo Nucifera)” by Fenglin Zhu, Han Sun, Jia Wang, Xingwen Zheng, Tao Wang, Ying Diao, and Zhongli Hu. p. 4250–4263.