The brassinosteroids hormones are involved in plant development and plant–environment interactions. In this work, Castorina et al. performed a detailed analysis of lilliputian1-1 (lil1-1), a mutant impaired in the last...
Tag - brassinosteroids
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Strigolactones, brassinosteroids and autoregulation of nodulation
An investigation of interactions between the AON system and two hormones recently shown to promote nodulation, strigolactones and brassinosteroids.
Mechanisms behind optimal defence patterns (Invited Review)
The optimal defence hypothesis (ODH) predicts that tissues that contribute most to a plant’s fitness and have the highest probability of being attacked will be the parts best defended. In general, young tissues show...
Small is beautiful… and more feminine…
Do our crop plants have to be as big as they are? Eh? Well, not such a daft question as you might think. Searching for a more cost-effective (i.e. cheaper!) alternative to inhibitors of brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis...
Nigel Chaffey