The gibberellic acid signaling repressor RGL2 inhibits Arabidopsis seed germination by stimulating abscisic acid synthesis and ABI5 activity

Plant Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2729-2745

  Piskurewicz, Urszula ^a   Jikumaru, Yusuke ^b   Kinoshita, Natsuko ^a   Nambara, Eiji ^b   Kamiya, Yuji ^b   Lopez Molina, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

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EID: 57749104906     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.108.061515     Document Type: Article

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