TITLE: Sugar availability suppresses the auxin-induced strigolactone pathway to promote bud outgrowth AUTHORS: Jessica Bertheloot 1 *, François Barbier 1,2 *, Frédéric Boudon 3 , Maria Dolores Perez-Garcia 1 , Thomas Péron 1 , Sylvie Citerne 4 , Elizabeth Dun 2 , Christine Beveridge 2 , Christophe Godin 5 , Soulaiman Sakr 1 1 IRHS, INRA, Agrocampus-Ouest, Université d’Angers, SFR 4207 QuaSaV, 49071 Beaucouzé, France; 2 School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia; 3 CIRAD, UMR AGAP & Univ. Montpellier, Avenue Agropolis, TA A- 108/01, F-34398 Montpellier, France ; 4 Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin Centre de Versailles- Grignon (IJPB), INRA, Agro-ParisTech, CNRS, Versailles, France ; 5 Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, Inria, F-69342, Lyon, France *These authors contributed equally to this work CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Jessica Bertheloot, jessica.bertheloot@inra.fr, +33 (0)2 41 22 56 32 certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not this version posted August 30, 2019. . https://doi.org/10.1101/752147 doi: bioRxiv preprint