Publications

To Color or to Decolor: that Is the Question

Scientific Year: 2019 DOI:10.1016/j.molp.2019.07.007

Authors: Jianing Mi, Salim Al-Babili

carotenoids
chromoplasts
photosynthesis
strigolactones
plant pigmentation

A Highly Sensitive SPE Derivatization–UHPLC–MS Approach for Quantitative Profiling of Carotenoid-Derived Dialdehydes from Vegetables

Scientific Year: 2019 DOI:10.1021/acs.jafc.9b01749

Authors: Jianing Mi, Kun-Peng Jia, Aparna Balakrishna, Qitong Feng, Salim Al-Babili

food diapocarotenoids
diapocarotenoids chemical derivatization
diapocarotenoids SPE
diapocarotenoids profiling
UHPLC-MS

Methylation at the C-3′ in D-Ring of Strigolactone Analogs Reduces Biological Activity in Root Parasitic Plants and Rice

Scientific Year: 2019 DOI:10.3389/fpls.2019.00353

Authors: Muhammad Jamil, Boubacar A. Kountche, Imran Haider, Jian You Wang, Faisal Aldossary, Randa A. Zarban, Kun-Peng Jia, Djibril Yonli, Umar F. Shahul Hameed, Ikuo Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Ota, Stefan T. Arold, Tadao Asami, Salim Al-Babili

strigolactones
striga hermonthica
suicidal germination
shoot branching
strigolactone analogs

Suicidal germination as a control strategy for Striga hermonthica (Benth.) in smallholder farms of sub-Saharan Africa

Scientific Year: 2019 DOI:10.1002/ppp3.32

Authors: Boubacar A. Kountche, Muhammad Jamil, Djibril Yonli, Minimassom P. Nikiema, Daniel Blanco-Ania, Tadao Asami, Binne Zwanenburg, Salim Al-Babili

striga hermonthica
food security
sub-saharan africa
pearl millet
sorghum
striga
maize
rice
suicidal germination

Apocarotenoids produced from β-carotene by dioxygenases from Mucor circinelloides

Scientific Year: 2019 DOI:10.1099/mic.0.000762

Authors: Eugenio Alcalde, Enrique Cerdá-Olmedo, Salim Al-Babili

mucor
apocarotenoids
carotenoid cleavage oxygenases
carotenoid
sexual interactions
trisporoids

Protocol for characterizing strigolactones released by plant roots

Scientific Year: 2022 DOI:10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101352

Authors: Jian You Wang, Guan-Ting Erica Chen, Muhammad Jamil, Justine Braguy, Salim Sioud, Kit Xi Liew, Aparna Balakrishna, Salim Al-Babili

strigolactones
SLS
liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
LC-MS
seedquant
root parasitic plants
seed germination

The apocarotenoid metabolite zaxinone regulates growth and strigolactone biosynthesis in rice

Scientific Year: 2019 DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-08461-1

Authors: Jian You Wang, Imran Haider, Muhammad Jamil, Valentina Fiorilli, Yoshimoto Saito, Jianing Mi, Lina Baz, Boubacar A Kountche, Kun-Peng Jia, Xiujie Guo, Aparna Balakrishna, Valentine O Ntui, Beate Reinke, Veronica Volpe, Takashi Gojobori, Ikram Blilou, Luisa Lanfranco, Paola Bonfante, Salim Al-Babili

Nature communications, 10 (1), 810

apocarotenoid
zaxinone
strigolactone
rice

Development and Characterization of Highly Efficient Mimics of the Rice Growth Regulator Zaxinone for Basic Research and Agricultural Applications

Scientific Year: 2019

Authors: Jian You Wang, Pei-Yu Lin, Muhammad Jamil, Boubacar A Kountche, Ikram Blilou, Angel R de Lera, Tadao Asami, Salim Al-Babili

Poster

zaxinone
agriculture
rice
carotenoid
plant horomones

Zaxinone, a natural apocarotenoid, is involved in the establishment of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

Scientific Year: 2019

Authors: Valentina Fiorilli, Imran Haider, Cristina Votta, Jian You Wang, Muhammad Jamil, Jianing Mi, Boubacar A Kountche, Kun-Peng Jia, Aparna Balakrishna, Luisa Lanfranco, Paola Bonfante, Salim Al-Babili

carotenoid
plant hormones
signaling molecules
arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis

Strigolactone biosynthesis and signal transduction

Scientific Year: 2019 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-12153-2_1

Authors: Kun-Peng Jia, Changsheng Li, Harro J Bouwmeester, Salim Al-Babili

Strigolactones - Biology and Applications (pp.1-45)

strigolactone
biosynthesis
signal transduction
carotenoid derivatives

An LC-MS profiling method reveals a route for apocarotene glycosylation and shows its induction by high light stress in Arabidopsis

Scientific Year: 2019 ISSN:1197-1204 DOI:10.1039/c8an02143k

Authors: Jianing Mi, Kun-Peng Jia, Aparna Balakrishna, Jian You Wang, Salim Al-Babili

Analyst 144

apocarotenoid glycosylation
carotenoid homeostasis
photo-oxidative stress

Methyl phenlactonoates are efficient strigolactone analogs with simple structure

Scientific Year: 2017 DOI:10.1093/jxb/erx438

Authors: Muhammad Jamil, Boubacar A Kountche, Imran Haider, Xiujie Guo, Valentine O Ntui, Kun-Peng Jia, Shawkat Ali, Umar S Hameed, Hidemitsu Nakamura, Ying Lyu, Kai Jiang, Kei Hirabayashi, Masaru Tanokura, Stefan T Arold, Tadao Asami, Salim Al-Babili

carlactone
methyl carlactonoic acid
plant architecture
root parasitic weeds
striga hermonthica
strigolactones
tillering

The genome of Chenopodium quinoa

Scientific Year: 2017 ISSN:0028-0836 DOI:10.1038/nature21370

Authors: David E. Jarvis Et Al

Nature - News & Views

Strigolactone biosynthesis is evolutionarily conserved, regulated by phosphate starvation and contributes to resistance against phytopathogenic fungi in a moss, Physcomitrella paten

Scientific Year: 2017 ISSN:1469-8137 DOI:10.1111/nph.14506

Authors: Eva L. Decker, Adrian Alder, Stefan Hunn, Jenny Ferguson, Mikko T. Lehtonen, Bjoern Scheler, Klaus L. Kerres, Gertrud Wiedemann, Vajiheh Safavi-Rizi, S. Nordzieke, Aparna Balakrishna, Lina Baz, J. Avalos, Jari P. T. Valkonen, R. Reski, Salim Al-Babili

carlactone
carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase
carotenoids
orobanche ramosa
phosphate starvation
physcomitrella patens
sclerotinia sclerotiorum
strigolactones

Insights into the formation of carlactone from in-depth analysis of the CCD8-catalyzed reactions

Scientific Year: 2017 ISSN:1742-4658 DOI:10.1002/1873-3468.12593

Authors: Mark Bruno, Martina Vermathen, Adrian Alder, Florian Wüst, Patrick Schaub, Rob Van Der Steen, Peter Beyer, Sandro Ghisla, Salim Al-Babili

carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase
Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons
lithium diisopropylamide
normalized collision energy
strigolactones

Colonization by the endophyte Piriformospora indica leads to early flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana likely by triggering gibberellin biosynthesis

Scientific Year: 2017 ISSN:0006-291X DOI:10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.06.169

Authors: Dongjin Kim, Mohamad E. Abdelaziz, Valentine Otang Ntui, Xiujie Guo, Salim Al-Babili

piriformospora indica
endophytic fungus
early flowering
gibberellin

The endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica enhances Arabidopsis thaliana growth and modulates Na+/K+ homeostasis under salt stress conditions

Scientific Year: 2017 ISSN:0168-9452 DOI:10.1016/j.plantsci.2017.07.006

Authors: Mohamed E. Abdelaziz, Dongjin Kim, Shawkat Ali, Nina V. Fedoroff, Salim Al-Babili

salinity stress
piriformospora indica
arabidopsis
Lower Na+/K+ ratio

On the substrate specificity of the rice strigolactone biosynthesis enzyme DWARF27

Scientific Year: 2016 ISSN:0032-0935 DOI:10.1007/s00425-016-2487-5

Authors: Mark Bruno, Salim Al-Babili

apocarotenoids
carotenoids
carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase
carotene isomerase
carlactone
strigolactones

Enzymatic study on AtCCD4 and AtCCD7 and their potential to form acyclic regulatory metabolites

Scientific Year: 2016 ISSN:1460-2431 DOI:10.1093/jxb/erw356

Authors: Mark Bruno, Julian Koschmieder, Florian Wuest, Patrick Schaub, Mirjam Fehling-Kaschek, Jens Timmer, Peter Beyer, Salim Al-Babili

apocarotenoids
carotenoids
carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase
CCD4
CCD7
retrograde signaling

Nitro-Phenlactone, a Carlactone Analog with Pleiotropic Strigolactone Activities

Scientific Year: 2016 ISSN:1674-2052 DOI:10.1016/j.molp.2016.05.017

Authors: Kun-Peng Jia, Boubacar A. Kountche, Muhammad Jamil, Xiujie Guo, Valentine O. Ntui, Andreas Rüfenacht, Soizic Rochange, Salim Al-Babili

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