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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

  1. 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


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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