Strigolactone biosynthesis in Medicago truncatula and rice requires the symbiotic GRAS-type transcription factors NSP1 and NSP2

Plant Cell

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3853-3865

  Liu, Wei ^a,b   Kohlen, Wouter ^a   Lillo, Alessandra ^a   den Camp, Rik Op ^a   Ivanov, Sergey ^a   Hartog, Marijke ^a   Limpens, Erik ^a   Jamil, Muhammad ^a   Smaczniak, Cezary ^a   Kaufmann, Kerstin ^a   Yang, Wei Cai ^b   Hooiveld, Guido J E J ^a   Charnikhova, Tatsiana ^a   Bouwmeester, Harro J ^a,c   Bisseling, Ton ^a,d   Geurts, René ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^c CENTRE FOR BIOSYSTEMS GENOMICS   (Netherlands)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

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EID: 82755166960     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.089771     Document Type: Article

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