How Plants Become Bushy, or Not (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

How Plants Become Bushy, or Not

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Branching, or bushiness in plants is controlled by breakdown of the hormone strigolactone by carboxylesterase enzymes. New work at UC Davis reveals the structure of two of these enzymes in plants and their roles in strigolactone breakdown. Left, CXE15 structure; right, CX20. 

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Nitzan Shabek/UC Davis

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