A critical role of sterols in embryonic patterning and meristem programming revealed by the fackel mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1485-1497

  Jang, Jyan Chyun ^a   Fujioka, Shozo ^b   Tasaka, Masao ^c   Seto, Hideharu ^b   Takatsuto, Suguru ^d   Ishii, Akira ^c   Aida, Mitsuhiro ^c   Yoshida, Shigeo ^b   Sheen, Jen ^e  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Brassinosteroids; C 14 sterol reductase; Dwarf; Embryogenesis; Meristem; Sterols

Indexed keywords

STEROL DERIVATIVE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; HYPOCOTYL; MERISTEM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; STEROLS; TIME FACTORS; YEASTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0034659222     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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