Growth retardants: Effects on gibberellin biosynthesis and other metabolic pathways

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2000, Pages 501-531

  Rademacher, Wilhelm ^a  

^a BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flavonoids; Growth regulation; Mode of action; Plant hormones; Sterols

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034485360     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.51.1.501     Document Type: Article

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