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Switching the Direction of Stem Gravitropism by Altering Two Amino Acids in AtLAZY1.
Plant physiology - 1 Feb 2020
Yoshihara Takeshi, Spalding Edgar P
Abstract excerpt
From germination to flowering, gravity influences plant growth and development. A rice (Oryza sativa) mutant with a distinctly prostrate growth habit led to the discovery of a gene category that participates in the shaping of plant form by gravity. Each so-called LAZY gene includes five short regions of conserved sequence. The importance of each of these regions in the LAZY1 gene of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis...
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