Side-Chain Modification of Cytokinins Controls Shoot Growth in Arabidopsis

Developmental Cell

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 452-461

  Kiba, Takatoshi ^a   Takei, Kentaro ^a   Kojima, Mikiko ^a   Sakakibara, Hitoshi ^a  

^a Elements Chemistry Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOKININ; ZEATIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME P-450 735A1, ARABIDOPSIS; CYTOCHROME P-450 735A2, ARABIDOPSIS; MESSENGER RNA; PHYTOHORMONE; TUMOR MARKER;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CYP735A1 GENE; CYP735A2 GENE; GENE INSERTION; HYDROXYLATION; LEAF LAMINA; LEAF SENESCENCE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOT GROWTH; SHOOT GROWTH; VEGETATIVE STAGE; WILD TYPE; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; CYTOKININS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HYDROXYLATION; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84888183439     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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