Plant hormones play a major role in plant growth and development. They affect similar processes but, paradoxically, their signaling pathways act nonredundantly. Hormone signals are integrated at ...

Recent research into bacterial cellulose patches may speed plants' recovery, improve grafting and help with preservation.

Tissue culture is a technique used to grow whole new plants from small sections of a parent plant. Hormones are used to stimulate cell division and elongation. When pollen has fertilized the egg ...

Rooting powder contains plant hormones to promote growth. Plant cuttings can be dipped in hormone rooting powder before planting. Synthetic plant hormones are used to control plant growth.

Plant hormones, also known as phytohormones, are chemicals that regulate plant cell processes. They are signal molecules produced within the plant functioning in extremely low concentrations.

have identified how abscisic acid (ABA), a plant hormone known for its role in drought response, influences root growth angles in cereal crops such as rice and maize. The results have been ...

Medically reviewed by Aviv Joshua, MS, RDN Hormones are chemical messengers that the glands of your endocrine system produce.

New method of regulating plant hormones allows researchers to increase quality and yields of rice crops grown in saline soil.

A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for ...

In it, the researchers describe a study focused on strigolactones, a special class of hormones in plants, that are difficult to study because plants produce them in small quantities. Plant ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A method has been developed to produce strigolactones, a class of plant hormones, using microbial cell factories, significantly increasing their availability for ...

coli and yeast -- to produce a special class of plant hormones, known as strigolactones, at unprecedented levels. By amplifying production of strigolactones, which occur in such low amounts in ...