Organ-specific expression of brassinosteroid-biosynthetic genes and distribution of endogenous brassinosteroids in Arabidopsis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 287-297

  Shimada, Yukihisa ^a   Goda, Hideki ^a   Nakamura, Ayako ^a,c   Takatsuto, Suguru ^b   Fujioka, Shozo ^a   Yoshida, Shigeo ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CLONING; ENZYMES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENES; HORMONES; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037246885     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.013029     Document Type: Article

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