A femtomolar-range suicide germination stimulant for the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica
| Autor: | Daisuke Uraguchi, Kohki Akiyama, Rie Yamaguchi, Toshinori Kinoshita, Takashi Ooi, Peter McCourt, Sathiyanarayanan Am, Stephan Irle, Hanae Imaizumi, Yuichiro Tsuchiya, Keiko Kuwata, Narumi Mori, Yuh Hijikata, Christin Rakers |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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2. Zero hunger
0106 biological sciences 0301 basic medicine Striga hermonthica Multidisciplinary biology Host (biology) Parasitic plant Noxious weed Strigolactone biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Chemical screening 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Striga Germination Botany 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Science. 362(6420):1301-1305 |
| ISSN: | 0036-8075 |
| Popis: | A step toward control of a noxious weed The parasitic plant Striga hermonthica causes extensive crop losses, particularly in Africa. Strigolactone hormones can be used to initiate germination of Striga seeds when no host crop is present, which causes the nascent Striga plants to die. Unfortunately, strigolactones are also used by crop plants to establish beneficial mutualisms. Uraguchi et al. developed a hybrid molecule that can initiate Striga germination without interfering with strigolactone-dependent events in the host (see the Perspective by Bouwmeester). The compound has the potential to diversify routes toward protecting fields from Striga infestation. Science , this issue p. 1301 ; see also p. 1248 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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