Direct control of shoot meristem activity by a cytokinin-activating enzyme

Nature

Volumn 445, Issue 7128, 2007, Pages 652-655

  Kurakawa, Takashi ^a   Ueda, Nanae ^b   Maekawa, Masahiko ^c   Kobayashi, Kaoru ^a   Kojima, Mikiko ^b   Nagato, Yasuo ^a   Sakakibara, Hitoshi ^b   Kyozuka, Junko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKININ; CYTOKININ ACTIVATING ENZYME; ENZYME; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHORIBOHYDROLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; GROWTH REGULATOR; HORMONE; RNA; SHOOT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LONELY GUY GENE; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RICE; SHOOT GROWTH;

EID: 33846902325     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05504     Document Type: Article

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