Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

An ancestral function of strigolactones as symbiotic rhizosphere signals

  • Kyoichi Kodama,
  • Mélanie K. Rich,
  • Akiyoshi Yoda,
  • Shota Shimazaki,
  • Xiaonan Xie,
  • Kohki Akiyama,
  • Yohei Mizuno,
  • Aino Komatsu,
  • Yi Luo,
  • Hidemasa Suzuki,
  • Hiromu Kameoka,
  • Cyril Libourel,
  • Jean Keller,
  • Keiko Sakakibara,
  • Tomoaki Nishiyama,
  • Tomomi Nakagawa,
  • Kiyoshi Mashiguchi,
  • Kenichi Uchida,
  • Kaori Yoneyama,
  • Yoshikazu Tanaka,
  • Shinjiro Yamaguchi,
  • Masaki Shimamura,
  • Pierre-Marc Delaux,
  • Takahito Nomura,
  • Junko Kyozuka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31708-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Strigolactones (SLs) regulate angiosperm development and promote symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizae. Here the authors show that bryosymbiol, an SL present in bryophytes and angiosperms, promotes AM symbiosis in Marchantia paleacea suggesting an ancestral function of SLs as rhizosphere signals.