Erect leaves caused by brassinosteroid deficiency increase biomass production and grain yield in rice

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-109

  Sakamoto, Tomoaki ^a   Morinaka, Yoichi ^b   Ohnishi, Toshiyuki ^c   Sunohara, Hidehiko ^b   Fujioka, Shozo ^d   Ueguchi Tanaka, Miyako ^b   Mizutani, Masaharu ^c   Sakata, Kanzo ^c   Takatsuto, Suguru ^e   Yoshida, Shigeo ^d   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^f,g   Kitano, Hidemi ^b   Matsuoka, Makoto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^g FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOSYNTHESIS; HYDROXYLATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

BRASSINOSTEROID DEFICIENCY; GENETIC MODULATION; GRAIN FILLING; GRAIN YIELD;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

BRASSINOSTEROID; CYTOCHROME P450; FERTILIZER;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CROP; GENE CONTROL; GRAIN YIELD; HYDROXYLATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PLANTING DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; STEROIDOGENESIS;

BIOMASS; CEREALS; FRUIT; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN KINASES; STEROIDS, HETEROCYCLIC;

BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GRAIN; HYDROXIDES; MUTAGENS; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 30544443941     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1173     Document Type: Article

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