In vivo and in vitro conversion of teasterone to typhasterol in cultured cells of Marchantia polymorpha

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 955-960

  Park, Seung Hyun ^a   Han, Kwang Seok ^a   Kim, Tae Wuk ^a   Shim, Jae Kuk ^a   Takatsuto, Suguru ^b   Yokota, Takao ^c   Kim, Seong Ki ^a  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^b JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 Dehydroteasterone reductase; Biosynthesis; Brassinosteroids; C3 epimerization; Marchantia polymorpha; Teasterone dehydrogenase

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR IDENTIFICATION; DEHYDROGENATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANT PRODUCT; SUSPENSION CELL CULTURE; TEASTERONE; TYPHASTEROL;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 0032852753     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029628     Document Type: Article

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