Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

strigolactone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: strigo-lac-tone
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of terpenoid lactones that stimulate germination in parasitic plants of the genus Striga, and that inhibit shoot branching.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"2004, Christine A. Beveridge, Catherine Rameau, E2A: Strigolactones: The New Class of Branching Hormones, Peter J. Davies (editor), Plant Hormones: Biosynthesis, Signal Transduction, Action!, page 513, Orthologous strigolactone response mutants (max2/ore9 in Arabidopsis, rms4 in pea, d3 in rice) have been of major value to demonstrate the specificity of action of strigolactones (13, 22)."
"Strigolactones are produced by the non-mycorrhizal plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Westwood 2000; Goldwasser and Yoder 2001), and plant mutants defective for strigolactone production have not yet been obtained."
"The first strigolactone isolated from root exudates was strigol (Cook et al. 1966)."

Etymology

From Striga + lactone.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

strigolactones (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

strigol

Questions

What does strigolactone mean?: Any of a family of terpenoid lactones that stimulate germination in parasitic plants of the genus Striga, and that inhibit shoot branching.
Where does strigolactone come from?: From Striga + lactone.

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