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Gibberellins: perception, transduction and responses

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Signals and Signal Transduction Pathways in Plants

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Gibberellins (GAs) are a class of plant hormones that exert profound and diverse effects on plant growth and development. The chemistry and metabolism of GAs have been studied for several decades and this has led to a detailed understanding of the pathways involved in their biosynthesis and catabolism. Attempts to understand the perception and mechanism of action of GAs have been based heavily on studies with the cereal aleurone as a model system and have drawn extensively on parallels with the molecular mechanism of action of mammalian steroid hormones. During the past few years, the established view of GA-perception has been challenged and new techniques for identifying GA receptors have been developed. As our understanding of GA-regulated events in aleurone cells has advanced through molecular and cell biology approaches, other GA-responsive plant tissues have also proved to be tractible for studying GA-action.

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