BIOL-1507EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auxin, Phototropism, Meristem

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Plant response to internal and external signals (plants hormones) Plants often respond to external and internal stimuli, with changes in their growth patterns. Some of the external factors that regulate growth are light, day length, gravity and temperature. Among the principal of internal factors that regulate growth are plant hormone. A hormone in a chemical messenger produced in small amounts by one part of the body, that is active in a different part of the body. Generally plant hormones are produced by the meristematic regions. The word hormone is derived from a greek words meaning to excited. So far, five classes consist of plant hormones, have been positively idenftifed: aaxin, gibberellins, cytokinis, abscisic acid, eythylene, brassine stevoids. These hormones can have a profound effect on the growth and development of plant organs. Reaction to a hormone usually depends not so much on the absolute amount of that hormone as on its relative concentration compared with other hormones.

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