For many plants, more branches means more fruit. But what causes a plant to grow branches? New research from the University of California, Davis shows how plants break down the hormone strigolactone, ...

What causes a plant to grow branches? New research from UC Davis shows how plants break down the hormone strigolactone, which suppresses branching, to become more “bushy.” Understanding how ...

More information: Qingliang Hu et al, Regulatory mechanisms of strigolactone perception in rice, Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.10.009 Provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

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More information: Xinwei Ban et al, Manipulation of a strigolactone transporter in tomato confers resistance to the parasitic weed broomrape, The Innovation (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2025.100815 ...

The team also engineered microbe metabolism to boost strigolactone production threefold to 47 micrograms per liter, enough for scientific study. Though commercial production of strigolactones is ...

A carotenoid-derived hormonal signal that inhibits shoot branching in plants has long escaped identification. Strigolactones are compounds thought to be derived from carotenoids and are known to ...

Hiroaki Ueda, Makoto Kusaba, Strigolactone Regulates Leaf Senescence in Concert with Ethylene in Arabidopsis, Plant Physiology, Vol. 169, No. 1 (September 2015), pp. 138-147 ...