Auxin - Plant Hormone

Title: Auxin - Plant Hormone
Category: Science & Technology / Biology | Words: 1570 | Pages: 6.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

Auxin - Plant Hormone

Hormone signaling is involved in all biological system. Hormones in general control the physical and emotional responses of an organism. A specific example of a hormone is auxin. Auxin is a plant hormone that plays an inportant role in several plant activities, such as: phototropism, gravitopism, apical dominance, fruit development, abscission, and root initiation. Auxin travels in a specific direction inside a plant, it is taken up by a particular cell at one end and …showed first 75 words of 1570 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1570 total…progenies of transgenic plants of Chinese cabbage with exogenous auxin genes," National Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Shanghai. URL http://www.cell-research.com/20002/202-HYK1.html. Valid on 5/19/03 Kimball, J., 2002, Auxin, URL http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/A/Auxin.html. Valid on 05/19/03. Nick, P., 1999, Signals, Motors, Morphogenesis-the Cytoskeleton in Plant Development." Plant Biology Vol. 1 Stuttgart, p. 169-176 Rarwanato, 2002, Auxin Signaling. Albany, California. URL http://www.ueb.cas.cz/eng/rarwnato2002/sakis.htm Valid on 05/19/03

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