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Biology and Biotechnology of the Plant Hormone Ethylene pp 39–45Cite as

The Role of Jasmonates in Ethylene Biosynthesis

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Jasmonic acid (JA), methyl jasmonate (JA-Me) and some other derivatives are widely distributed in the plant kingdom and play a key role as phytohormones, elicitors and signal transducers [19, 23, 41, 54]. Biosynthesis of (+)-7-iso-jasmonic acid [syn. (+)-2-epi-jasmonic acid)] originates from linolenic acid and is easily transformed to (-)-jasmonic acid (Fig. 1). All of different plant responses to jasmonates, wheather applied externally or released internally, appear to be correlated with alterations in gene expression [39].

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Saniewski, M. (1997). The Role of Jasmonates in Ethylene Biosynthesis. In: Kanellis, A.K., Chang, C., Kende, H., Grierson, D. (eds) Biology and Biotechnology of the Plant Hormone Ethylene. NATO ASI Series, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5546-5_6

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