DWARF and LOW-TILLERING, a new member of the GRAS family, plays positive roles in brassinosteroid signaling in rice

Plant Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 803-816

  Tong, Hongning ^a,b   Jin, Yun ^a,b   Liu, Wenbo ^a,b   Li, Feng ^a,b   Fang, Jun ^a   Yin, Yanhai ^c   Qian, Qian ^d   Zhu, Lihuang ^a   Chu, Chengcai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Brassinosteroid signaling; DLT; Dwarf; GRAS; Rice; Tillering

Indexed keywords

BRASSINOLIDE; CHOLESTANOL; HETEROCYCLIC STEROID; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT GENE; RICE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHOLESTANOLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDS, HETEROCYCLIC;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 66249138825     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2009.03825.x     Document Type: Article

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