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strigolactones

strigolactones is the plural of strigolactone.

Meaning of strigolactone

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

Questions about strigolactones

What is strigolactones the plural of?
Strigolactones is the plural of strigolactone.

Words near strigolactones in the dictionary

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

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