Early Work

 

Mitchell JW, Whitehead MR. 1941. Responses of vegetative parts of plants following application of extract of pollen from Zea mays. Botanical Gazette 102: 770-790**

Mitchell JW, Skraggs DP, Anderson WP. 1951. Plant growth stimulating hormones in immature bean seeds. Science 114: 159-161**

Marumo S, Hattori H, Nanoyaman Y, Munakata K. 1968. The presence of novel plant growth regulators in leaves of Distylium racemosum Sieb et Zucc.. Agricultural and Biological Chemistry 32: 528-529**

Mitchell JW, Mandava NB, Worley JF, Plimmer JR, Smith MV. 1970. Brassins - a new family of plant hormones from rape pollen. Nature 225: 1065-1066

Mandava NB, Mitchell JW. 1971. New plant hormones. Indian Agriculture 15: 19-31

Mitchell JW, Mandava N, Worley JF, Drowne ME. 1971. Fatty hormones in pollen and immature seeds of bean. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 19: 391-393**

Worley JF, Mitchell JW. 1971. Growth responses induced by brassins (fatty plant hormones) in bean plants. Journal of the American Society of Horticultural Science 96: 270-273

Mandava NB, Mitchell JW. 1972. Structural elucidation of brassins. Chemistry and Industry 930-932

Mitchell JW, Gregory LE. 1972. Enhancement of overall growth, a new response to brassins. Nature New Biology 239: 253-254**

Krizek DT, Worley JF. 1973. The influence of light intensity on the internodal response of intact bean plants to brassins. Botanical Gazette 134: 147-150

Mandava NB, Sidwell BA, Mitchell JW, Worley JF. 1973. Production of brassins from rape pollen: a convenient preparative method. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Products and Research Developments 12: 138-139**

Milborrow BV, Price RJ. 1973. The brassins. Nature 243: 46-46

Chandra GR, Mandava NB, Warthen Jr JD. 1978. Uridine diphosphate glucose: fatty acid glucosyl transferase activity of rape (Brassica napus L.) anther tissue. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 526: 387-397**

Grove MD, Spencer GF, Pfeffer PE, Mandava NB, Warthen Jr JD, Worley JF. 1978. 6-Beta-glucopyranosyl fatty acid esters from Brassica napus pollen. Phytochemistry 17: 1187-1189**

Mandava NB, Kozempel M, Worley JF, Mathees D, Warthen Jr JD,  Jacobson M, Steffens GL, Kenney H, Grove MD. 1978. Isolation of brassins by extraction of rape (Brassica napus) pollen, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Chemistry Products and Research Developments 17: 351-354**

Bemiller JN, Leung GLY, Yopp JH. 1979. Synthesis and growth regulator activity of fatty acyl derivatives of D-glucose and D-galactose. Phytochemistry 18: 1283-1288**

Ladd DB, Yopp JH. 1979. Inhibition of IAA oxidase by brassin-complex. Plant Physiology 63: 51-51

Yopp JH, Colclasure GC, Mandava NB. 1979. Effect of brassin-complex on auxin and gibberellin mediated effects in the morphogenesis of the etiolated bean hypocotyl, Physiologia Plantarum 46: 247-254

 

 

 

 

Introduction

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(Revised November 2011)