The Arabidopsis dwf7/ste1 mutant is defective in the Δ7 sterol C-5 desaturation step leading to brassinosteroid biosynthesis

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 207-221

  Choe, Sunghwa ^a   Noguchi, Takahiro ^b   Fujioka, Shozo ^b   Takatsuto, Suguru ^c   Tissier, Christophe P ^a   Gregory, Brian D ^a   Ross, Amanda S ^a   Tanaka, Atsushi ^a,d   Yoshida, Shigeo ^b   Tax, Frans E ^a   Feldmann, Kenneth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

24 METHYLENECHOLESTEROL; ALLELE; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRASSINOSTEROID; CLONED GENE; CODON; COMPACTIN; DELTA7 STEROL; EXON; GENE LOCUS; MEVALONIC ACID; MUTANT; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 6544274717     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.2.207     Document Type: Article

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