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Abstract
By monitoring the growth of several adenine auxotrophs of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae on cytokinin-supplemented media, we have demonstrated that this organism can utilize some of these derivatives as a source of adenine. Growth of a mutant lacking adenylosuccinate synthetase suggests that the conversion of cytokinins to adenine does not involve a hypoxanthine intermediate and may be catalyzed by an enzyme analogous to cytokinin oxidase.Entities:
Year: 1987 PMID: 16665326 PMCID: PMC1056437 DOI: 10.1104/pp.83.4.726
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Plant Physiol ISSN: 0032-0889 Impact factor: 8.340