RNA interference knockdown of BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE1 in maize reveals novel functions for brassinosteroid signaling in controlling plant architecture

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 826-839

  Kir, Gokhan ^a,e   Ye, Huaxun ^a   Nelissen, Hilde ^b,c   Neelakandan, Anjanasree K ^a   Kusnandar, Andree S ^a   Luo, Anding ^d   Inzé, Dirk ^b,c   Sylvester, Anne W ^d   Yin, Yanhai ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^e AHI EVRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRASSINOLIDE; BRASSINOSTEROID; HETEROCYCLIC STEROID; PLANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CELL DIVISION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAF; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BRASSINOSTEROIDS; CELL DIVISION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDS, HETEROCYCLIC; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84940926481     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00367     Document Type: Article

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