Background It has been known for many decades that auxin inhibits the activation of axillary
buds, and hence shoot branching, while cytokinin has the opposite effect. However, the …

With the discovery of strigolactones as root exudate signals that trigger parasitic weed seed
germination, and then as a branching inhibitor and plant hormone, the next phase of …

The inhibition of shoot branching by the growing shoot tip of plants, termed apical
dominance, was originally thought to be mediated by auxin. Recently, the importance of the …

Cytokinins are phytohormones that induce cytokinesis and are essential for diverse
developmental and physiological processes in plants. Cytokinins of the trans-zeatin type are …

Cytokinin (CK) has long been implicated as a promoter of bud outgrowth in plants, but
exactly how this is achieved in coordination with other plant hormones is unclear. The recent …

The function of PsBRC1, the pea (Pisum sativum) homolog of the maize (Zea mays)
TEOSINTE BRANCHED1 and the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) BRANCHED1 …

Since the origins of agriculture, the progressive domestication of food crops has been
intimately related to a series of innovations in plant propagation. In the Fertile Crescent …

Cytokinins, a group of mobile phytohormones, play an important role in plant growth and
development, and their activity is finely controlled by environmental factors in the control of …

Strigolactones (SL) contribute to drought acclimatization in shoots, because SL‐depleted
plants are hypersensitive to drought due to stomatal hyposensitivity to abscisic acid (ABA) …

Abstract In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), the carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases
MORE AXILLARY GROWTH3 (MAX3) and MAX4 act together with MAX1 to produce a …