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A peroxisomal ABC transporter promotes seed germination by inducing pectin degradation under the control of ABI5.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jun 2010
Kanai Masatake, Nishimura Mikio, Hayashi Makoto
Abstract excerpt
Seed dormancy is essential for most plants to control the timing of germination. In Arabidopsis thaliana, PED3 is a single-copy gene encoding an ATP-binding cassette transporter that is required for peroxisomal fatty acid beta-oxidation. PED3 is involved in the import of several biologically important molecules into the peroxisome, including very-long-chain fatty acids associated with the breakdown of...
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