Nature Communications (May 2016)

The Arabidopsis NPF3 protein is a GA transporter

  • Iris Tal,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Morten Egevang Jørgensen,
  • Odelia Pisanty,
  • Inês C. R. Barbosa,
  • Melina Zourelidou,
  • Thomas Regnault,
  • Christoph Crocoll,
  • Carl Erik Olsen,
  • Roy Weinstain,
  • Claus Schwechheimer,
  • Barbara Ann Halkier,
  • Hussam Hassan Nour-Eldin,
  • Mark Estelle,
  • Eilon Shani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11486
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Transport of the plant hormone gibberellin is required for normal plant growth and development. Here, Tal et al. show that NPF3 is able to transport gibberellin in vitro, and provide evidence that it is required for normal gibberellin distribution and activity in plants.