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Arabidopsis lox3 lox4 double mutants are male sterile and defective in global proliferative arrest.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Jan 2011
Caldelari Daniela, Wang Gaoge, Farmer Edward E, Dong Xinnian
Abstract excerpt
Fertility and flower development are both controlled in part by jasmonates, fatty acid-derived mediators produced via the activity of 13-lipoxygenases (13-LOXs). The Arabidopsis thaliana Columbia-0 reference genome is predicted to encode four of these enzymes and it is already known that one of these, LOX2, is dispensable for fertility. In this study, the roles of the other three 13-LOXs (LOX3, LOX4 and LOX6)...
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