Issue 2, 2012
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Molecular BioSystems

Strigolactones as small molecule communicators

Yuichiro Tsuchiya*a  and  Peter McCourta  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks St Toronto, Canada
E-mail: yuichiro.tsuchiya@utoronto.ca

Abstract

Originally identified as an allelochemical involved in plant host–parasite interactions, strigolactones have more recently been shown to have much broader communication roles. Strigolactones function as a symbiotic communicator in plants and mycorrhizal fungi interactions and have also been shown to have hormonal roles in higher plants. This ability to act as both an exogenous and an endogenous signal has interesting implications with respect to the constraints on strigolactone structures. Probing the hormonal function of strigolactones using chemical biology and genetics is beginning to provide clues as to how strigolactones were co-opted as an allelochemical signal by parasitic plants.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1MB05195D
Article type
Review Article
Submitted
24 May 2011
Accepted
07 Oct 2011
First published
25 Oct 2011

Mol. BioSyst., 2012,8, 464-469

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Y. Tsuchiya and P. McCourt, Mol. BioSyst., 2012, 8, 464 DOI: 10.1039/C1MB05195D

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