“…However, despite the availability of several transcriptome data sets (30 -33), strigolactone-regulated transcription factors and strigolactone-responsive genes are rare, of which BRANCHED1 (BRC1) is one of the best known in Arabidopsis thaliana (34). On the whole, only a few differentially expressed genes, often with low differences in expression levels, were identified upon rac-GR24 treatment, a synthetic strigolactone analog (31)(32)(33)(34). Of last, several studies have emerged that support strigolactone signaling occurring to a large extent at the protein level (29,35,36), as illustrated by the direct effect of strigolactones on PIN-FORMED1 (PIN1) recycling at the plasma membrane in xylem parenchyma cells that results in modified auxin flows in the stem and, finally, altered shoot branching (35,37).…”