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Strigolactones: Plant Hormones with Promising Features
Author(s) -
Bouwmeester Harro J.,
FonnePfister Raymonde,
Screpanti Claudio,
De Mesmaeker Alain
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201901626
Subject(s) - rhizosphere , auxin , hormone , biology , plant hormone , plant life , microbiology and biotechnology , geography , bacteria , biochemistry , genetics , gene , forestry
Almost 80 years after the discovery of the first plant hormone, auxin, a few years ago a new class of plant hormones, the strigolactones, was discovered. These molecules have unprecedented biological activity in a number of highly important biological processes in plants but also outside the plant in the rhizosphere, the layer of soil surrounding the roots of plants and teeming with life. The exploitation of this amazing biological activity is not without challenges: the synthesis of strigolactones is complicated and designing the desired activity a difficult task. This minireview describes the current state of knowledge about the strigolactones and how synthetic analogs can be developed that can potentially contribute to the development of a sustainable agriculture.