A tale of dwarfs and drugs: brassinosteroids to the rescue.

doi:10.1016/s0168-9525(98)01598-4

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A tale of dwarfs and drugs: brassinosteroids to the rescue.

Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Dec 1998

Altmann T

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Brassinosteroids (BRs), a specific class of low abundance plant steroids, are capable of eliciting strong growth responses and a variety of physiological changes through exogenous application to plants. Recently, BRs gained general acceptance as important regulators (hormones) of plant growth and...

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Mutation
Plants
Signal Transduction
Steroids

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