The strigolactone pathway plays a crucial role in integrating metabolic and nutritional signals in plants

F Barbier, F Fichtner, C Beveridge - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Strigolactones are rhizosphere signals and phytohormones that play crucial roles in plant
development. They are also well known for their role in integrating nitrate and phosphate …

The origin of a land flora

JL Bowman - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of a land flora fundamentally shifted the course of evolution of life on earth,
facilitating terrestrialization of other eukaryotic lineages and altering the planet's geology …

Canonical strigolactones are not the major determinant of tillering but important rhizospheric signals in rice

S Ito, J Braguy, JY Wang, A Yoda, V Fiorilli… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Strigolactones (SLs) are a plant hormone inhibiting shoot branching/tillering and a
rhizospheric, chemical signal that triggers seed germination of the noxious root parasitic …

The renaissance and enlightenment of Marchantia as a model system

JL Bowman, M Arteaga-Vazquez, F Berger… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has been utilized as a model for biological studies
since the 18th century. In the past few decades, there has been a Renaissance in its …

Crossroads in the evolution of plant specialized metabolism

TP Rieseberg, A Dadras, JMR Fürst-Jansen… - Seminars in Cell & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The monophyletic group of embryophytes (land plants) stands out among photosynthetic
eukaryotes: they are the sole constituents of the macroscopic flora on land. In their entirety …

Strigolactone: an emerging growth regulator for developing resilience in plants

AF Alvi, Z Sehar, M Fatma, A Masood, NA Khan - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Improving plant resilience to changing environmental conditions is the primary focus of
today's scientific research globally. It is essential to find various strategies for the better …

Cracking the enigma: understanding strigolactone signalling in the rhizosphere

J Clark, T Bennett - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The rhizosphere is a complex physical and chemical interface between plants and their
underground environment, both biotic and abiotic. Plants exude a large number of …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in sustainable agriculture

R Kalamulla, SC Karunarathna, S Tibpromma… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The coevolution of mycorrhizae with plants represents a major evolutionary adaptation to the
land environment. As a bioinoculant, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play a beneficial …

Genome evolution in plants and the origins of innovation

JW Clark - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plant evolution has been characterised by a series of major novelties in their vegetative and
reproductive traits that have led to greater complexity. Underpinning this diversification has …

Strigolactones and shoot branching: what is the real hormone and how does it work?

EA Dun, PB Brewer, EMJ Gillam… - Plant and Cell …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
There have been substantial advances in our understanding of many aspects of
strigolactone regulation of branching since the discovery of strigolactones as …