American Journal of Plant Sciences

Vol.6 No.8(2015), Paper ID 56370, 16 pages

DOI:10.4236/ajps.2015.68120

 

Parasitic Plants Striga and Phelipanche Dependent upon Exogenous Strigolactones for Germination Have Retained Genes for Strigolactone Biosynthesis

 

Malay Das, Monica Fernández-Aparicio, Zhenzhen Yang, Kan Huang, Norman J. Wickett, Shannon Alford, Eric K. Wafula, Claude dePamphilis, Harro Bouwmeester, Michael P. Timko, John I. Yoder, James H. Westwood

 

Department of Biological Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Department of Plant Breeding, Spanish National Research Council, Córdoba, Spain
Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL, USA
Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

 

Copyright © 2015 Malay Das, Monica Fernández-Aparicio, Zhenzhen Yang, Kan Huang, Norman J. Wickett, Shannon Alford, Eric K. Wafula, Claude dePamphilis, Harro Bouwmeester, Michael P. Timko, John I. Yoder, James H. Westwood et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Das, M. , Fernández-Aparicio, M. , Yang, Z. , Huang, K. , Wickett, N. , Alford, S. , Wafula, E. , dePamphilis, C. , Bouwmeester, H. , Timko, M. , Yoder, J. and Westwood, J. (2015) Parasitic Plants Striga and Phelipanche Dependent upon Exogenous Strigolactones for Germination Have Retained Genes for Strigolactone Biosynthesis. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 6, 1151-1166. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2015.68120.

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