Meaning of strigolactone | Babel Free

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Any of a family of terpenoid lactones that stimulate germination in parasitic plants of the genus Striga, and that inhibit shoot branching.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“2004, Christine A. Beveridge, Catherine Rameau, E2A: Strigolactones: The New Class of Branching Hormones, Peter J. Davies (editor), Plant⟳ Hormones: Biosynthesis, Signal Transduction, Action!, page 513, Orthologous strigolactone response mutants (max2/ore9 in Arabidopsis, rms4 in pea, d3 in rice) have⟳ been of major value to demonstrate⟳ the specificity of action of strigolactones (13, 22).”

“Strigolactones are produced by the non-mycorrhizal plant⟳ Arabidopsis thaliana (Westwood 2000; Goldwasser and Yoder 2001), and plant⟳ mutants defective for strigolactone production have⟳ not yet been obtained.”

“The first strigolactone isolated from root exudates was strigol (Cook⟳ et al. 1966).”

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