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Branching vs Strigolactone - What's the difference?

branching | strigolactone |

As nouns the difference between branching and strigolactone

is that branching is a process of forming a branch while strigolactone is (organic chemistry) any of a family of terpenoid lactones that stimulate germination in parasitic plants of the genus striga , and that inhibit shoot branching.

As a verb branching

is .

branching

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A process of forming a branch.
  • strigolactone

    English

    (wikipedia strigolactone) (Striga)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (organic chemistry) Any of a family of terpenoid lactones that stimulate germination in parasitic plants of the genus Striga , and that inhibit shoot branching.
  • * 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,
  • 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).
  • * 2009 , Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson, Marie Tollot, Pascale M. A. Seddas, Chapter 3: Dissection of Genetic Cell Programmes Driving Early Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Iteractions'', C. Azcón Aguilar, J. M. Barea, S. Gianinazzi, V. Gianinazzi-Pearson (editors), ''Mycorrhizas - Functional Processes and Ecological Impact , page 36,
  • 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.
  • * 2012 , J. Benjamin Miller, Giles E. D. Oldroyd, The Role of Diffusible Signals in the Establishment of Rhizobial and Micorrhizal Symbioses'', Silvia Perotto, F. Baluška (editors), ''Signaling and Communication in Plant Symbiosis , page 15,
  • The first strigolactone isolated from root exudates was strigol (Cook et al. 1966).