strigolactone

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English

The general chemical structure of a strigolactone
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Etymology

From Striga + lactone.

Noun

strigolactone (usually uncountable, plural strigolactones)

  1. (organic chemistry) Any of a family of terpenoid lactones that stimulate germination in parasitic plants of the genus Striga, and that inhibit shoot branching.
    • 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).
    • 2009, Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson, Marie Tollot, Pascale M. A. Seddas, “Chapter 3: Dissection of Genetic Cell Programmes Driving Early Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Interactions”, in C. Azcón Aguilar, J. M. Barea, S. Gianinazzi, V. Gianinazzi-Pearson, editors, Mycorrhizas - Functional Processes and Ecological Impact, page 36:
      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.
    • 2012, J. Benjamin Miller, Giles E. D. Oldroyd, “The Role of Diffusible Signals in the Establishment of Rhizobial and Micorrhizal Symbioses”, in Silvia Perotto, F. Baluška, editors, Signaling and Communication in Plant Symbiosis, page 15:
      The first strigolactone isolated from root exudates was strigol (Cook et al. 1966).