Publications by authors named "Smadar Weininger"

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) include Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis. preparations have beneficial effects for IBD patients. However, extracts contain hundreds of compounds.

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Strigolactones (SLs) are plant hormones and regulators of root development, including lateral root (LR) formation, root hair (RH) elongation and meristem cell number, in a MORE AXILLARY GROWTH 2 (MAX2)-dependent way. However, whether SL signaling is acting cell-autonomously or in a non-cell-autonomous way in roots is unclear. We analyzed root phenotype, hormonal responses and gene expression in multiple lines of Arabidopsis thaliana max2-1 mutants expressing MAX2 under various tissue-specific promoters and shy2 mutants.

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