ReviewJournal of experimental botany2012
Brassinosteroid action in flowering plants: a Darwinian perspective.
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- Evolutionary shifts in plant adaptation mediated by phytohormones.Plant communications · 2026Review
- Mode of Action of Brassinosteroids: Seed Germination and Seedling Growth and Development-One Hypothesis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of 24-Epibrassinolide on the Tolerance of Wheat Cultivars with Different Drought Adaptation Strategies Under Water Deficit Conditions.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- 24-Epibrassinolide Reduces Drought-Induced Oxidative Stress by Modulating the Antioxidant System and Respiration in Wheat Seedlings.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Transcriptome Shock in Developing Embryos of aInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Signaling by the EPFL-ERECTA family coordinates female germline specification through the BZR1 family in Arabidopsis.The Plant cell · 2023Article
- Phytoecdysteroids: Distribution, Structural Diversity, Biosynthesis, Activity, and Crosstalk with Phytohormones.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Brassinazole Resistant 1 Activity Is Organ-Specific and Genotype-Dependent in Barley Seedlings.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Insight into early diversification of leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases provided by the sequenced moss and hornwort genomes.Plant molecular biology · 2021Article
- Application of homobrassinolide enhances growth, yield and quality of tomato.Saudi journal of biological sciences · 2021Article
- Quantitative trait mapping of plant architecture in two BCTAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2021Article
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- ERECT LEAF1 suppresses jasmonic acid response in rice by decreasing OsWRKY4 stability.Plant signaling & behavior · 2019Article
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- Light and plant development: the discovery of phototropins by Winslow R. Briggs (1928-2019).Plant signaling & behavior · 2019Article
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- Functional Characterization of the Steroid Reductase GenesInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2018Article
- Rice ERECT LEAF 1 acts in an alternative brassinosteroid signaling pathway independent of the receptor kinase OsBRI1.Plant signaling & behavior · 2017Article
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Abstract
The year 2012 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's first botanical book, on the fertilization of orchids (1862), wherein he described pollen grains and outlined his evolutionary principles with respect to plant research. Five decades later, the growth-promoting effect of extracts of Orchid pollen on coleoptile elongation was documented. These studies led to the discovery of a new class of phytohormones, the brassinosteroids (BRs) that were isolated from rapeseed (Brassica napus) pollen. These growth-promoting steroids, which regulate height, fertility, and seed-filling in crop plants such as rice (Oryza sativa), also induce stress- and disease resistance in green algae and angiosperms. The origin and current status of BR-research is described here, with reference to BR-action and -signal transduction, and it is shown that modern high-yield rice varieties with erect leaves are deficient in endogenous BRs. Since brassinosteroids induce pathogen resistance in rice plants and hence can suppress rice blast- and bacterial blight-diseases, genetic manipulation of BR-biosynthesis or -perception may be a means to increase crop production. Basic research on BR activity in plants, such as Arabidopsis and rice, has the potential to increase crop yields further as part of a 21th century 'green biotech-revolution' that can be traced back to Darwin's classical breeding experiments. It is concluded that 'Nothing in brassinosteroid research makes sense except in the light of Darwinian evolution' and the value of basic science is highlighted, with reference to the genetic engineering of better food crops that may become resistant to a variety of plant diseases.
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