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ArticlePlant signaling & behavior2016

Role of Arabidopsis sterol 4α-methyl oxidase2 family in embryo and postembryonic development.

Xia Zhang, Heping Li

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Article in Plant signaling & behavior, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xia Zhanga Department of Plant Biology and Ecology , College of Life Sciences, Nankai University , Tianjin , China.
Heping Lib Department of Soil and Water Sciences , China Agricultural University , Beijing , PR China.
China Agricultural University · CNNankai University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sterols play important roles in plant growth, including embryogenesis, cell expansion, vascular differentiation, male fertility, and endocytosis. Sterols become functional only after removal of the 2 methyl groups at C-4. There are 2 distinct sterol C-4-methyl oxidase (SMO) families in higher plants, SMO1 and SMO2, which contain 3 and 2 isoforms, respectively, involving in the removal of the first and second C4 methyl groups during sterols biosynthesis. In a recent study we showed that single smo2-1 and smo2-2 mutants displayed no significant phenotype, while smo2-1 smo2-2 double mutant was embryonic lethal. smo2-1/+ smo2-2 and smo2-1 smo2-2/+ mutants showed defect in abnormal embryo patterning and smo2-1 smo2-2/+ mutant displayed dwarf phenotype. In this mini-review, we summarize the functions and regulatory mechanisms of SMO2-1 and SMO2-2 in embryo and postembryonic development.

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Embryonic lethalpostembryonic developmentSMO2-1SMO2-2sterol

Identifiers

PMID27763803
PMCPMC5157922
OpenAlexW2538635753

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