BIOL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 75: Meristem, Auxin, Osmosis

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The apical meristem at the tip of a shoot is s major site of auxin synthesis. As auxin moves downward, diffusing from cell-to-cell, it stimulates growth of the stem by making cells elongate: as the blue curve in figure 24. 3b shows, auxin promotes cell elongation in stems only within a certain concentration range. On the one hand, an auxin concentration too low to stimulate shoot cells will cause root cells to elongate. On the other hand, an auxin concentration high enough to make stem cells elongate is in the concentration range that inhibits root cell elongation. Higher concentrations benefit the plant by promoting stem growth while inhibiting root growth nearer to the sites of auxin production. Some herbicides contain synthetic auxins at high concentrations that kill plants through hormonal overdose. After this initial elongation caused by the uptake of water, the cell sustains the growth by synthesizing more cell wall material and cytoplasms.

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