FACKEL is a sterol C-14 reductase required for organized cell division and expansion in Arabidopsis embryogenesis

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1471-1484

  Schrick, Kathrin ^a   Mayer, Ulrike ^a   Horrichs, Andrea ^b   Kuhnt, Christine ^c   Bellini, Catherine ^d   Dangl, Jeff ^b,e   Schmidt, Jürgen ^c   Jürgens, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Max Delbruck Laboratorium der Max Planck Gesellschaft   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brassinosteroids; Embryogenesis; erg24; FACKEL (FK); GC MS; Sterol reductase

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROL SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034659406     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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