Ethylene upregulates auxin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis seedlings to enhance inhibition of root cell elongation

Plant Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2186-2196

  Swarup, Ranjan ^a   Perry, Paula ^a,b,c   Hagenbeek, Dik ^c   Van Der Straeten, Dominique ^c   Beemster, Gerrit T S ^b,c   Sandberg, Göran ^d   Bhalerao, Rishikesh ^e   Ljung, Karin ^e   Bennett, Malcolm J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; ELONGATION; GROWTH KINETICS; HORMONES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS SEEDLINGS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; HORMONE SIGNAL; ROOT APEX;

ETHYLENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 34548357289     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.052100     Document Type: Article

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