The DWF4 gene of Arabidopsis encodes a cytochrome P450 that mediates multiple 22α-hydroxylation steps in brassinosteroid biosynthesis

Plant Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 231-243

  Choe, Sunghwa ^a   Dilkes, Brian P ^b   Fujioka, Shozo ^a   Takatsuto, Suguru ^a   Sakurai, Akira ^b   Feldmann, Kenneth A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

22ALPHA HYDROXYLASE; ALLELE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRASSINOLIDE; CELL ELONGATION; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 OXYGENASE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DWARFISM; MUTANT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0032004228     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.2.231     Document Type: Article

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