INHIBITION OF GERMINATION IN PLANTS

摘要

The invention concerns a method for controlled germination in plants wherein a plant is provided with a nucleotide sequence which when expressed is able to inhibit in the seeds of said plant an enzyme in the gibberellic acid (GA) biosynthesis pathway. Also provided in the invention is a novel rice P450 protein and its coding sequence which plays in role in the GA biosynthesis pathway. Inhibition of germination can be restored by (chemical) treatment with gibberellins.