Comparative studies on the Arabidopsis aldehyde oxidase (AAO) gene family revealed a major role of AAO3 in ABA biosynthesis in seeds

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1694-1703

  Seo, Mitsunori ^a   Aoki, Hiroyuki ^b   Koiwai, Hanae ^b   Kamiya, Yuji ^a   Nambara, Eiji ^a   Koshiba, Tomokazu ^b  

^a RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid (ABA); Aldehyde oxidase (AO); Arabidopsis thaliana; Redundancy; Seed dormancy; Seed germination

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 11144345842     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pch198     Document Type: Article

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