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Arabidopsis A BOUT DE SOUFFLE, which is homologous with mammalian carnitine acyl carrier, is required for postembryonic growth in the light.
The Plant cell - 1 Sept 2002
Lawand Salam, Dorne Albert-Jean, Long Deborah, Coupland George, Mache Régis, Carol Pierre
Abstract excerpt
The degradation of storage compounds just after germination is essential to plant development, providing energy and molecules necessary for the building of a photosynthetic apparatus and allowing autotrophic growth. We identified à bout de souffle (bou), a new Arabidopsis mutation. Mutant plants stopped developing after germination and degraded storage lipids, but they did not proceed to autotrophic growth....
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