ArticleFrontiers in plant science2021
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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.
- The potential of metabolic engineering for sustainable phytosterol production.Advanced biotechnology · 2026Review
- Sterols in plant biologyCell surface (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Review
- Cytochromes P450 evolution in the plant terrestrialization context.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Stigmasterol: An Enigmatic Plant Stress Sterol with Versatile Functions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- A cell-based fluorescent system and statistical framework to detect meiosis-like induction in plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
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Abstract
Sterols are integral components of membrane lipid bilayers in eukaryotic organisms and serve as precursors to steroid hormones in vertebrates and brassinosteroids (BR) in plants. In vertebrates, cholesterol is the terminal sterol serving both indirect and direct roles in cell signaling. Plants synthesize a mixture of sterols including cholesterol, sitosterol, campesterol, and stigmasterol but the signaling role for the free forms of individual plant sterols is unclear. Since stigmasterol is the terminal sterol in the sitosterol branch and produced from a single enzymatic step, modifying stigmasterol concentration may shed light on its role in plant metabolism. Although
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