A tale of dwarfs and drugs: brassinosteroids to the rescue

被引：22
作者：
Altmann, T [1 ]
机构：
[1] Max Planck Inst Mol Pflanzenphysiol, D-14476 Golm, Germany
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TRENDS IN GENETICS | 1998年 / 14卷 / 12期
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10.1016/S0168-9525(98)01598-4
中图分类号：
Q3 [遗传学];
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071007 ; 090102 ;
摘要：
Brassinosteroids (BRs), a specific class of low abundance plant steroids, are capable of eliciting strong growth responses and a variety of physiological changes through exogenous application to plants. Recently, BRs gained general acceptance ns important regulators (hormones) of plant growth and development through genetic and molecular identification and characterization of genes involved in BR biosynthesis or response in Arabidopsis, pen and tomato. This major advance in the molecular genetics of BR biosynthesis ann mode of action disclosed another case of amazing functional conservation of signalling molecules utilized in plants and animals, and provided a set of extremely valuable tools for the functional analysis of BRs.
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