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Arabidopsis mutants resistant to the auxin effects of indole-3-acetonitrile are defective in the nitrilase encoded by the NIT1 gene.
The Plant cell - 1 Oct 1997
Normanly J, Grisafi P, Fink G R, Bartel B
Abstract excerpt
Indole-3-acetonitrile (IAN) is a candidate precursor of the plant growth hormone indole-3-acetic acid (IAA). We demonstrated that IAN has auxinlike effects on Arabidopsis seedlings and that exogenous IAN is converted to IAA in vivo. We isolated mutants with reduced sensitivity to IAN that remaine...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Aminohydrolases
- Arabidopsis
- Chromosome Mapping
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Indoleacetic Acids
- Indoles
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid