How does a tiny molecule help shape the future of global food security? Researchers from the University of Tasmania have provided new insights into auxin, a master plant hormone, and its vital role in ...

Discovering the relationship between two plant hormones could lead to crops needing less water and being more ...

2008; Casal, 2013). Most phytohormones which are found to participate in several aspects of the shade avoidance signaling pathways, auxin and gibberellins (GAs) are best established to be essential ...

Roots constitute the first organ to respond to environmental changes and are essential for sessile organisms in terms of anchoring to the soil and taking up nutrients and water (Aiken and Smucker, ...

Researchers from the University of Tasmania have provided new insights into auxin, a master plant hormone, and its vital role in starch production—the powerhouse of the world's most important crops.

Wageningen researchers have discovered that a vital plant protein originated more than 600 million years ago, long before the ...

Scientists have discovered that a crucial protein found in plants, called auxin response factor (ARF) first arose about 600 ...

The whole experiment was performed in duplicate. Besides physical parameters, biochemical contents, e.g., auxin, protein, alkaloids, terpenoids, and steroid contents were also measured. A paste of ...