Brassinosteroids: Essential Regulators of Plant Growth and Development

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 49, Issue , 1998, Pages 427-451

  Clause, Steven D ^a   Sasse, Jenneth M ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cell elongation; Hormone deficient mutant; Hormone insensitive mutant; Signal transduction; Steroid biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031793484     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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