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vii CHAPTER I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION  1 I.1. Maize and the importance of plant architecture  1 I.2. Brassinosteroids  4 I.2.1. Brassinosteroid signaling  6 I.2.2. Brassinosteroids biosynthesis  8 I.3. knotted1-like homeobox (knox)  11 I.4. wavy auricle in blade1 (wab1)  14 References  16 CHAPTER II. GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS OF BRASSINOSTEROID MUTANTS, BRI1-RNAI AND BIN2-RNAI, IN RELATION TO KN1-O, A KNOX MUTANT  24 II.1. Abstract  24 II.2. Introduction  25 II.3. Materials and methods  28 II.4. Results and discussion  31 II.5. Figures and tables  34 References  40 CHAPTER III. GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS OF BRASSINOSTEROID MUTANTS, BRI1-RNAI AND BIN2-RNAI, IN RELATION TO TCP TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, WAB1, GENE  44 III.1. Abstract  44 III.2. Introduction  45 III.3. Materials and methods  48

Relationships of brassinosteroid signaling with knox and wab1 genes on maize plant architecture