While the individual signaling functions of sugars and SLs are well documented, their crosstalk remains an emerging and largely underexplored area of plant biology.
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sugar-strigolactone crosstalk
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Understanding sugar-strigolactone interactions may provide insights for improving crop and horticultural performance and resilience.
Sugar and strigolactone signaling have independent and interactive roles across seed germination, hypocotyl elongation, root and shoot architecture, flowering, senescence, and plant responses to abiotic and biotic stress.
BRC1/TB1 is highlighted as a nodal mediator of sugar-strigolactone crosstalk in shoot branching.
FT is highlighted as a nodal mediator of sugar-strigolactone crosstalk in flowering.
Sugar and strigolactone signaling crosstalk is an emerging and largely underexplored area of plant biology.
TOR kinase, SnRK1, and SMXL proteins are presented as shared regulators through which sugar-strigolactone interplay influences seed germination and plant adaptation to environmental stresses.