Lesions in the sterol Δ7 reductase gene of Arabidopsis cause dwarfism due to a block in brassinosteroid biosynthesis

Plant Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 431-443

  Choe, Sunghwa ^a   Tanaka, Atsushi ^a,b   Noguchi, Takahiro ^c   Fujioka, Shozo ^c   Takatsuto, Suguru ^d   Ross, Amanda S ^a   Tax, Frans E ^a   Yoshida, Shigeo ^c   Feldmann, Kenneth A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^e Ceres Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRASSINOSTEROID; CODON; DWARFISM; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GROWTH REGULATION; MESSENGER RNA; METABOLITE; MUTANT; PHENOTYPE; STEROL DELTA REDUCTASE GENE; WILD RELATIVE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEROIDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0034028486     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00693.x     Document Type: Article

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