A Critical Account on the Inception of Striga Seed Germination
- 1 April 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
- Vol. 47 (4) , 1320-1325
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jf980926e
Abstract
The seeds of the parasitic weed Striga germinate in response to stimulants exuded by the roots of host plants and some nonhost plants. Literature data are summarized that support the view that strigolactones induce germination of parasitic weed seeds via a receptor-mediated mechanism. The suggestion by Lynn et al. that the strigol D-ring is solely responsible for germinating Striga seeds via a redox reaction was based on hypothesized structural similarities between the natural compound dihydrosorgoleone (SXSg) and the strigol D-ring. Experiments have shown that the mechanistic connection between SXSg and the strigol D-ring is not valid, and therefore the proposed redox mechanism for the induction of Striga seed germination by strigolactones does not hold. Keywords: Bioorganic chemistry; germination; parasitic weeds; Striga; SXSgKeywords
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