Brassinosteroids regulate grain filling in rice

Plant Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2130-2145

  Wu, Chuan Yin ^a   Trieu, Anthony ^a   Radhakrishnan, Parthiban ^a   Kwok, Shing F ^a   Harris, Sam ^a   Zhang, Ke ^a   Wang, Jiulin ^b   Wan, Jianmin ^b   Zhai, Huqu ^b   Takatsuto, Suguru ^c   Matsumoto, Shogo ^d   Fujiok, Shozo ^d   Feldmann, Kenneth A ^a   Pennell, Roger I ^a  

^a Ceres Inc   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ORYZA SATIVA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 57749108204     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.055087     Document Type: Article

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