Emission of ent-Kaurene, a diterpenoid hydrocarbon precursor for gibberellins, into the headspace from plants

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1129-1138

  Otsuka, Minoru ^a,b   Kenmoku, Hiromichi ^b   Ogawa, Mikihiro ^b   Okada, Kazunori ^c,d   Mitsuhashi, Wataru ^a   Sassa, Takeshi ^a   Kamiya, Yuji ^b   Toyomasu, Tomonobu ^a   Yamaguchi, Shinjiro ^b  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^c TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Diterpene; ent Kaurene; Gibberella fujikuroi; Gibberellin

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CHAMAECYPARIS; CHAMAECYPARIS OBTUSA; CRYPTOMERIA; CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA; FUNGI; GIBBERELLA; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; JAPONICA;

EID: 7944226011     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pch149     Document Type: Article

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