The Strigolactone Germination Stimulants of the Plant-Parasitic Striga and Orobanche spp. Are Derived from the Carotenoid Pathway1

By R. Matusova, K. Rani, F. Verstappen, M. Franssen, M. Beale, H. Bouwmeester. Plant Physiology, 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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• Arbuscular mycorrhizal networks: process and functions. A review (2010, background): “…were previously described as sesquiterpenes (Akiyama et al., 2005); however, the use of carotenoid mutants of maize and inhibitors of isoprenoid pathways in maize, sorghum and cowpea showed that strigolactones are derived from the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway (Matusova et al., 2005).”
• Strigolactones Stimulate Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi by Activating Mitochondria (2006, background): “[31] suggested that strigolactones may be derived from the carotenoid pathway.”
• Maize Y9 Encodes a Product Essential for 15-cis-ζ-Carotene Isomerization1[OA] (2007, background): “…attract beneficial fungi and damaging parasitic plants that have opposite effects on plant yield (Milborrow, 2001; Bouvier et al., 2003; Booker et al., 2004; Schwartz et al., 2004; Simkin et al., 2004; Castillo et al., 2005; Matusova et al., 2005; Moise et al., 2005; Nambara and Marion-Poll, 2005).”
• The strigolactone story. (2010, background): “SLs are derived from carotenoids and therefore fluridone and norflurazon, herbicides inhibiting carotenoid biosynthesis (inhibitors of phytoene desaturase), could reduce SL production (81).”
• Sesquiterpene Lactones: More Than Protective Plant Compounds With High Toxicity (2016, background): “Strigolactones represent the first and most important group of metabolites characterized as germination stimulants, and most are active at extremely low concentrations in the nanomolar range or lower (Bouwmeester et al., 2003; Joel, 2000; Sato et al., 2005; Matusova et al., 2005).”
• DWARF27, an Iron-Containing Protein Required for the Biosynthesis of Strigolactones, Regulates Rice Tiller Bud Outgrowth[W][OA] (2009, background): “Strigolactones, synthesized from carotenoids, are a group of terpenoid lactones that have been found in root exudates of diverse plant species (Cook et al., 1972; Bouwmeester et al., 2003; Matusova et al., 2005; Humphrey and Beale, 2006; LopezRaez et al., 2008).”
• Mechanisms underlying beneficial plant-fungus interactions in mycorrhizal symbiosis. (2010, positive): “The seeds of parasitic weeds are also stimulated to germinate by strigolactone”
• Carotenoids from fruits and vegetables: Chemistry, analysis, occurrence, bioavailability and biological activities. (2015, background): “Some carotenoids (neoxanthin and violaxanthin) also act as precursors for the biosynthesis of the plant hormones abscisic acid (ABA) and strigolactone (Matusova et al., 2005; Parry & Horgan, 1991).”
• Biosynthesis and biological functions of terpenoids in plants. (2015, background): “Parasitic plants such as Striga lutea (witchweed) eavesdrop on these compounds by using them as germination signals [281].”
• The function of terpene natural products in the natural world. (2007, background): “Nonvolatile terpenes involved in below-ground communication include strigol and other strigolactones, which are of apocarotenoid origi”