Title |
The computational-based structure of Dwarf14 provides evidence for its role as potential strigolactone receptor in plants
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Published in |
BMC Research Notes, June 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1756-0500-5-307 |
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Authors |
Noura Gaiji, Francesca Cardinale, Cristina Prandi, Paola Bonfante, Graziella Ranghino |
Abstract |
Strigolactones (SLs) are recently identified plant hormones modulating root and shoot branching. Besides their endogenous role within the producing organism, SLs are also key molecules in the communication of plants with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and parasitic weeds. In fact SLs are exuded into the rhizosphere where they act as a host-derived signal, stimulating the germination of the seeds of parasitic plants which would not survive in the absence of a host root to colonize. Similarly, their perception by AM fungi causes extensive hyphal branching; this is a prerequisite for effective root colonization, since it increases the number of potential contact points with the host surface. In spite of the crucial and multifaceted biological role of SLs, there is no information on the receptor(s) which bind(s) such active molecules, neither in the producing plants, or in parasitic weeds or AM fungi. |
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