Identification of castasterone, 6-deoxocastasterone, typhasterol and 6-deoxotyphasterol from the shoots of Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1201-1203

  Fujioka, Shozo ^a   Choi, Yong Hwa ^a   Takatsuto, Suguru ^b   Yokota, Takao ^c   Li, Jianming ^d   Chory, Joanne ^d   Sakurai, Akira ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Early C6 oxidation pathway; Endogenous brassinosteroids; Late C6 oxidation pathway; Shoot

Indexed keywords

CASTASTERONE; CHOLESTANOL; PHYTOHORMONE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHOLESTANOLS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT SHOOTS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0030432994     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029074     Document Type: Article

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