“…The use of natural SLs for this purpose is not a realistic alternative because chemical synthesis of these compounds is very laborious. In addition, plants produce and release SLs in very low amounts, even under phosphate starvation that triggers both processes (Halouzka, Tarkowski, Zwanenburg, & Ćavar, 2018;Matusova, 2005;Stewart & Press, 1990;Sugimoto, Wigchert, Thuring, & Zwanenburg, 1998;Wigchert et al, 1999;Xie, Yoneyama, & Yoneyama, 2010). Although significant success has been achieved in the development of a wide array of SL analogs (Jia et al, 2016;Kondo et al, 2007;Mwakaboko & Zwanenburg, 2011a, 2011bZwanenburg & Pospíšil, 2013), the practicability of the SLbased suicidal germination strategy has been rarely explored in field trials (Zwanenburg et al, 2016(Zwanenburg et al, , 2009.…”