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ArticleKAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) DivisionCenter for Desert Agriculture
Plant Science
Date
2013-02Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/566041
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The strigolactones are rhizosphere signaling molecules as well as a new class of plant hormones with a still increasing number of biological functions being uncovered. Here, we review a recent major breakthrough in our understanding of strigolactone biosynthesis, which has revealed the unexpected simplicity of the originally postulated complex pathway. Moreover, the discovery and localization of a strigolactone exporter sheds new light on putative strigolactone fluxes to the rhizosphere as well as within the plant. The combination of these data with information on the expression and regulation of strigolactone biosynthetic and downstream signaling genes provides new insights into how strigolactones control the many different aspects of plant development and how their rhizosphere signaling role may have evolved. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.Citation
Ruyter-Spira, C., Al-Babili, S., van der Krol, S., & Bouwmeester, H. (2013). The biology of strigolactones. Trends in Plant Science, 18(2), 72–83. doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2012.10.003Sponsors
This work was supported by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (to H.J.B.: VICI Grant 865.06.002 and Equipment Grant 834.08.001), Technology Foundation STW (Project 10990) and the EU (METAPRO; FP7 KBBE-2009-3-1-01) (SA). H.J.B. and S.v.d.K. are (co)financed by the Centre for BioSystems Genomics (CBSG), which is part of The Netherlands Genomics Initiative/Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Trends in Plant SciencePubMed ID
23182342ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.tplants.2012.10.003
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