Study tests the complexity of important plant hormones
A Purdue University study confirms complex associations among plant hormones and their signaling pathways that are key to controlling plant architecture.
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Aug 8, 2017
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News tagged with plant hormones
Study reveals how a hormone increases sucrose accumulation in sugarcane
Chemical ripeners, also known as growth regulators, are widely used in Brazil's sugarcane industry to increase early sucrose content relative to total mass and to inhibit plant growth in order to prolong harvesting and milling, ...
Biotechnology
Jun 9, 2017
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Revealed: New step in plant mastermind hormone's pathway
Plants are stationary. This means that the way they grow must be highly internally regulated to use the surrounding resources in the most-advantageous way possible.
Biotechnology
Jun 1, 2017
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Biological sensor can identify and quantify the activity of a little-known class of plant hormones
Strigolactones are an important and diverse class of plant hormones. Now, an international team led by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Associate Professor Salim Al-Babili and Professor ...
Biotechnology
Apr 14, 2017
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Single enzyme controls two plant hormones
Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis isolated an enzyme that controls the levels of two plant hormones simultaneously, linking the molecular pathways for growth and defense.
Biotechnology
Nov 23, 2016
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Molecular conductors help plants respond to drought
We can tell when plants need water: their leaves droop and they start to look dry. But what's happening on a molecular level?
Biotechnology
Nov 3, 2016
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Feedback loop behind spiral patterns in plants uncovered?
This flower-like image shows a plant that is not developing quite right. It comes from a study in which scientists at EMBL and the University of Sydney unearthed the molecular feedback loop that creates the spiral pattern ...
Biotechnology
Nov 3, 2016
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Defying frost and the cold with hormones
Plants cannot simply relocate to better surroundings when their environmental conditions are no longer suitable. Instead, they have developed sophisticated molecular adaptation mechanisms. Scientists at the Technical University ...
Biotechnology
Oct 4, 2016
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Overlooked plants defy drought
A feature thought to make plants sensitive to drought could actually hold the key to them coping with it better, according to new findings published in eLife.
Biotechnology
Oct 4, 2016
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Unlocking the mystery on how plant leaves grow their teeth
Plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University have discovered the key element, an EPFL2 peptide that is responsible for creating the teeth-like shapes on plant leaves. The zigzag edges of leaves, so-called leaf teeth, are important ...
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Sep 2, 2016
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