Vurro Maurizio, Prandi Cristina, Baroccio Francesca
Institute of Sciences of Food Production, National Research Council, Bari, Italy.
Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Pest Manag Sci. 2016 Nov;72(11):2026-2034. doi: 10.1002/ps.4254. Epub 2016 Mar 15.
Strigolactones are a class of natural and synthetic compounds that in the past decade have been exciting the scientific community not only for their intriguing biological properties but also for their potential applications in agriculture. These applications range from their use as hormones to modify and/or manage plant architecture, to their use as stimulants to induce seed germination of parasitic weeds and thus control their infestation by a reduced seed bank, to their use as 'biostimulants' of plant root colonisation by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, improving plant nutritional capabilities, to other still unknown effects on microbial soil communities. More recently, these compounds have also been attracting the interest of agrochemical companies. In spite of their biological attractiveness, practical applications are still greatly hampered by the low product yields obtainable by plant root exudates, by the costs of their synthesis, by the lack of knowledge of their off-target effects and by the not yet specified or properly identified legislation that could regulate the use of these compounds, depending on the agricultural purposes. The aim of this article is to discuss, in the light of current knowledge, the different scenarios that might play out in the near future with regard to the practical application of strigolactones. © 2016 Society of Chemical Industry.
独脚金内酯是一类天然和合成化合物，在过去十年中，它们不仅因其引人入胜的生物学特性，还因其在农业中的潜在应用而令科学界兴奋不已。这些应用范围广泛，从用作激素来改变和/或调控植物形态，到用作刺激剂以诱导寄生杂草种子萌发，从而通过减少种子库来控制其侵染，再到用作丛枝菌根真菌对植物根系定殖的“生物刺激剂”，提高植物营养能力，以及对土壤微生物群落产生其他尚不明确的影响。最近，这些化合物也引起了农用化学品公司的兴趣。尽管它们具有生物学吸引力，但实际应用仍然受到极大阻碍，原因包括植物根系分泌物可获得的产品产量低、合成成本高、对其非靶标效应缺乏了解，以及尚未明确或正确界定的可根据农业用途规范这些化合物使用的法规。本文旨在根据当前知识，探讨独脚金内酯实际应用在不久的将来可能出现的不同情况。© 2016化学工业协会。
