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Plants must constantly adjust their growth and defense responses to deal with the wide variety of stresses they encounter in their environment. Among phytohormones, brassinosteroids (BRs) are an important group of plant steroid hormones involved in numerous aspects of the plant lifecycle including
The effect of 24-epibrassinolide (EBR) on glucosinolate biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana was investigated in the present study by using mutants and transgenic plants involved in brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis and signal transduction, as well as glucosinolate biosynthesis. The results showed
Seeds of 32 pure lines and six commercial broccoli cultivars were used to investigate variation in glucosinolates and their breakdown products. Aliphatic glucosinolate content was 54.5-218.7 μmol/g fresh weight, accounting for > 90 % of the total glucosinolates. The major glucosinolates found