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Jia Xin Yap1, Yuichiro Tsuchiya2
1Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|July 8, 2024
Abstract:
Seed germination of a parasitic plant Striga hermonthica is elicited by strigolactones which are exuded from roots of host plants. Here, we describe a high-throughput germination assay and a method for visualizing in vivo strigolactone receptor functions with a fluorogenic probe.
Keywords:
Chemical screeningFluorescent molecular probeParasitic plantReceptor function visualizationStriga hermonthicaStrigolactoneSuicidal germinationTime-lapse movieYoshimulactone green W
