Strigolactone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Strigolactone is a noun meaning (organic chemistry) Any of a family of terpenoid lactones that stimulate germination in parasitic plants of the genus Striga, and that inhibit shoot branching.
Meaning
(organic chemistry) Any of a family of terpenoid lactones that stimulate germination in parasitic plants of the genus Striga, and that inhibit shoot branching.
Example Sentences
The first strigolactone isolated from root exudates was strigol (Cook et al. 1966).
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.
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).
Word Forms
- strigolactones
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sorgolactone, orobanchol, spirolactone, lagerstroemine, lactarane, enterolactone.
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