• DOI:10.1038/281216A0
Corpus ID: 4335601

Brassinolide, a plant growth-promoting steroid isolated from Brassica napus pollen

@article{Grove1979BrassinolideAP,
  title={Brassinolide, a plant growth-promoting steroid isolated from Brassica napus pollen},
  author={M. D. Grove and Gayland F. Spencer and W. Rohwedder and N. Mandava and J. Worley and J. Warthen and G. L. Steffens and J. Flippen-Anderson and J. Cook},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1979},
  volume={281},
  pages={216-217}
}

M. D. Grove, Gayland F. Spencer, +6 authors J. Cook

Published 1979

Biology

Nature

Extracts of Brassica napus L. (rape) pollen (family, Cruciferae) have been reported to produce a novel growth-promoting effect when applied to young pinto bean plants1,2. Fractions that are active in the bean second-internode assay3 give rise to both increased cell elongation and cell division4. The validity of these early reports has been questioned because biological activity was not correlated with any one pure compound5. Subsequently, we showed that isolation of the growth promoter was… CONTINUE READING

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