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Recent advances in molecular basis for strigolactone action

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Strigolactones (SLs) are a very special class of plant hormones, which act as endogenous signals to regulate shoot branching in plants, and also serve as rhizosphere signals to regulate interactions of host plants with heterologous organisms such as symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and parasitic weeds. In this short review, we give a brief description of novel discoveries in SL biosynthesis pathway, and mainly summarize the recent advances in SL perception and signal transduction.

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The work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFA0500501, 2016YFD0101800), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31630085, 91635301) and the grant from the China Association for Science and Technology.

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  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

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Yao, R., Li, J. & Xie, D. Recent advances in molecular basis for strigolactone action. Sci. China Life Sci. 61, 277–284 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-017-9195-x

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