Identification of Brassinosteroids That Appear to Be Derived from Campesterol and Cholesterol in Tomato Shoots

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1291-1294

  Yokota, Takao ^a   Nomura, Takahito ^b   Nakayama, Masayoshi ^a,c  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

28 norcastasterone; 6 deoxocastasterone; Brassinosteroids; Castasterone; Lycopersicon esculentum; Tomato

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0000417991     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029119     Document Type: Article

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