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Genomic and non-genomic events involved in the brassinosteroid-promoted plant cell growth

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Brassinosteroids: A Class of Plant Hormone

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In all multicellular organisms growth and morphogenesis must be coordinated. In plants, coordinate control of growth is regulated by both external stimuli and internal mechanisms. In most multicellular organisms, steroids act as internal mediators for physiological and developmental regulation. Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroids known to induce a broad spectrum of responses in plants; however, promotion of cell growth is a major biological effect of BRs. In this chapter, an insight into the genomic and non-genomic events involved in thebrassinosteroids-promoted plant cell growth is provided.

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Pereira-Netto, A.B. (2011). Genomic and non-genomic events involved in the brassinosteroid-promoted plant cell growth. In: Hayat, S., Ahmad, A. (eds) Brassinosteroids: A Class of Plant Hormone. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0189-2_8

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