Development of strigolactone function regulators

Abstract

Strigolactones (SLs) are plant hormones that regulate various developmental phenomena over the plant life cycle. In this study, we screened the chemical library of triazole derivatives to find SL biosynthetic inhibitors and developed novel SL biosynthetic inhibitors. One of the SL biosynthetic inhibitors, TIS108, was particularly potent and reduced SL levels in planta and induced SL biosynthetic mutant-like morphology in Arabidopsis.