“…A trace amount of natural strigolactones are biosynthesised from carotenoids in plant roots in only trace amounts; therefore, artificial analogues like GR24 are generally used to imitate the molecular mechanism of natural strigolactones (Kramna et al ., 2019). Strigolactones have been found to play an essential role in various biological processes including seed germination (Omoarelojie et al ., 2020), hyphal branching of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, symbiotic interaction between the fungus and plant hosts (Banasiak et al ., 2020), root elongation (Sun et al ., 2021), adventitious root formation (Omoarelojie et al ., 2021) and rice tillering (Liu et al ., 2020), carbohydrate distribution (Zheng et al ., 2018), stress response (Yamada et al ., 2014; Zheng et al ., 2018; Lu et al ., 2019; Sedaghat et al ., 2020; Zhang et al ., 2020; Zulfiqar et al ., 2020; Bidabadi & Sharifi, 2021), and organ senescence. In Arabdopsis, perennial ryegrass, rice, and bamboo, GR24 has been shown to accelerate leaf senescence (Yamada et al ., 2014; Ueda & Kusaba, 2015; Tian et al ., 2018; Hu et al ., 2021).…”