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ArticleThe Plant cell2002

Gibberellins are required for seed development and pollen tube growth in Arabidopsis.

Davinder P Singh, Angelica M Jermakow, Stephen M Swain

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Article in The Plant cell, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 93 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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93citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

93 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 270 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Davinder P SinghCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization-Plant Industry, Private Mail Bag, Merbein, Victoria 3505, Australia.
Angelica M Jermakow
Stephen M Swain
Plant Industry · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gibberellins (GAs) are tetracyclic diterpenoids that are essential endogenous regulators of plant growth and development. GA levels within the plant are regulated by a homeostatic mechanism that includes changes in the expression of a family of GA-inactivating enzymes known as GA 2-oxidases. Ectopic expression of a pea GA 2-oxidase2 cDNA caused seed abortion in Arabidopsis, extending and confirming previous observations obtained with GA-deficient mutants of pea, suggesting that GAs have an essential role in seed development. A new physiological role for GAs in pollen tube growth in vivo also has been identified. The growth of pollen tubes carrying the 35S:2ox2 transgene was reduced relative to that of nontransgenic pollen, and this phenotype could be reversed partially by GA application in vitro or by combining with spy-5, a mutation that increases GA response. Treatment of wild-type pollen tubes with an inhibitor of GA biosynthesis in vitro also suggested that GAs are required for normal pollen tube growth. These results extend the known physiological roles of GAs in Arabidopsis development and suggest that GAs are required for normal pollen tube growth, a physiological role for GAs that has not been established previously.

Indexed as

ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsFertilityFlowersFruitGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicGene Expression Regulation, PlantGibberellinsHomozygoteMixed Function OxygenasesMutationPhenotypePisum sativumPlants, Genetically ModifiedPollenSeedsArabidopsis ProteinsAtGA2ox7 protein, ArabidopsisAtGA2ox8 protein, Arabidopsisgibberellin 2-dioxygenaseGibberellinsMixed Function Oxygenases

Identifiers

PMID12468732
PMCPMC151207
OpenAlexW2098842350

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