The arabidopsis DIMINUTO/DWARF1 gene encodes a protein involved in steroid synthesis

Plant Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1677-1690

  Klahre, Ulrich ^a   Noguchi, Takahiro ^b,c   Fujioka, Shozo ^b   Takatsuto, Suguru ^d   Yokota, Takao ^e   Nomura, Takahito ^f   Yoshida, Shigeo ^b   Chua, Nam Hai ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c Shinagawa Furnace Co   (Japan)

^d JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^e TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0032192096     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.10.1677     Document Type: Article

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