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Nature Chemical Biology 4, 337 - 339 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0608-337
A new path to auxin
Lucia C Strader1 & Bonnie Bartel1
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Lucia C. Strader and Bonnie Bartel are in the Biochemistry and Cell Biology Department, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
e-mail: bartel@rice.edu
Abstract
Biosynthesis of essential hormones is often complex and redundant. Two independent genetic screens have converged to support a previously conjectured auxin biosynthetic pathway that is responsible for providing auxin during plant development and in response to environmental cues.
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