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Comprehensive hormone profiling in developing Arabidopsis seeds: examination of the site of ABA biosynthesis, ABA transport and hormone interactions.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Dec 2010
Kanno Yuri, Jikumaru Yusuke, Hanada Atsushi, Nambara Eiji, Abrams Suzanne R, Kamiya Yuji, Seo Mitsunori
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ABA plays important roles in many aspects of seed development, including accumulation of storage compounds, acquisition of desiccation tolerance, induction of seed dormancy and suppression of precocious germination. Quantification of ABA in the F(1) and F(2) populations originated from crosses between the wild type and an ABA-deficient mutant aba2-2 demonstrated that ABA was synthesized in both maternal and...
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