Selective deactivation of gibberellins below the shoot apex is critical to flowering but not to stem elongation of Lolium

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2008

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King, Rod W
Mander, Lewis
Asp, Torben
MacMillan, Colleen P.
Blundell, Cheryl A
Evans, Lloyd T

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Oxford University Press

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Gibberellins (GAs) cause dramatic increases in plant height and a genetic block in the synthesis of GA1 explains the dwarfing of Mendel's pea. For flowering, it is GA5 which is important in the long-day (LD) responsive grass, Lolium. As we show here, GA1

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Keywords: Lolium; Pisum sativum; Poaceae; gibberellin; growth inhibitor; phytohormone; article; biosynthesis; chemistry; drug effect; enzyme specificity; flower; genetics; growth, development and aging; kinetics; Lolium; metabolism; multigene family; photoperiodici

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Molecular Plant

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