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No.42 - 農業生物資源研究所

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Takeshi NAKANO, Shigeo YOSHIDA and Tadao ASAMI<br />

Fig. 1 Brassinosteroid biosynthesis pathway.<br />

Arabidopsis mutants such as det2, dwf4 and cpd clarified the detail<br />

brassinosteroid biosynthetic pathway. One possible target of Brz is the<br />

cytochrome P450 enzyme encoded by DWF4.<br />

phytohormone group.<br />

Brz, Brassinosteroid biosynthesis inhibitor, revealed brassinosteroid functions in plant growth<br />

The recently-synthesized compound brassinazole (Brz or Brz220) was the first specific<br />

inhibitor of brassinosteroid biosynthesis to be discovered. One possible target of Brz220 is the<br />

cytochrome P450 enzyme encoded by DWF4 (Asami et al., 2001) (Fig. 1). Brz220 treatment of

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