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strigolactone

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

strigolactone: any of a family of terpenoid lactones that stimulate germination in parasitic plants of the genus...
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Noun

strigolactone (usually uncountable, plural strigolactones)

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

Forms of strigolactone

pluralstrigolactones

Origin of strigolactone

From Striga + lactone.

Questions about strigolactone

What does strigolactone mean?
Strigolactone means any of a family of terpenoid lactones that stimulate germination in parasitic plants of the genus Striga, and that inhibit shoot branching.
What part of speech is strigolactone?
Strigolactone is a noun.
What is the plural of strigolactone?
The plural of strigolactone is strigolactones.

Words near strigolactone in the dictionary

  1. strigment
  2. strigments
  3. strigoceratid
  4. strigoceratids
  5. strigoi
  6. strigolactone
  7. strigolactones
  8. strigolnik
  9. strigolniki
  10. strigolniks
  11. strigolniky

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