PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hines, Pamela J.
TI  - Making Carlactone
AID  - 10.1126/scisignal.2003046
DP  - 2012 Mar 20
TA  - Science Signaling
PG  - ec86--ec86
VI  - 5
IP  - 216
4099  - http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/5/216/ec86.short
4100  - http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/5/216/ec86.full
SO  - Sci. Signal.2012 Mar 20; 5
AB  - Germination of parasitic witchweeds depends on strigolactones, which also regulate plant branching and signal in the context of mycorrhizal symbioses. The biosynthetic pathways that lead to strigolactones are founded in carotenoid biosynthesis, but further steps have been obscure. Alder et al. have now identified a biochemical pathway that generates a strigolactone-like compound, carlactone, which shows biological actions similar to those of strigolactone. A. Alder, M. Jamil, M. Marzorati, M. Bruno, M. Vermathen, P. Bigler, S. Ghisla, H. Bouwmeester, P. Beyer, S. Al-Babili, The path from β-carotene to carlactone, a strigolactone-like plant hormone. Science 335, 1348–1351 (2012). [Abstract] [Full Text]