research article
Growth regulating metabolites: Gibberellin compounds derived from rice disease-producing fungus exhibit powerful plant growth regulating properties
authors
Lawrence Rappaport, University of California
publication information
California Agriculture 10(12):4-11. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v010n12p4.
Summary
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The gibberellins, chemical compounds exhibiting a variety of remarkable growth regulating properties, are metabolites—products of metabolism—of Gibberella fujikuroi, a fungus which causes a disease of rice characterized by pronounced stem elongation and, ultimately, death of the plant.
author affiliations
Lawrence Rappaport is Junior Olericdturist in Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis.
author notes
C. A. West, B. O. Phinney and Anton Lang of the University of California. Los Angeles. and S. H. Wittwer and M. J. Bukovac of Michigan State University conducted the additional research on gibberellins referred to in the above article.
Dr. F. D. Stodola, Northern Utilization Research Branch, USDA, Peoria, Illinois. supplied the gibberellins used in these studies.
The above progress report is based on Project 1175 D.
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