Sentences with phrase «role of the plant hormone»
Yesterday would have been the 94th birthday of Frits Went, a Dutch - born American botanist who discovered the role of the plant hormone auxin and paved the way for the development of weed killers, fertilizers, and genetically engineered crops.
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The next step in this line of investigation, already in development, is to learn how cellular responses vary, on a molecular level, among roots of flooded plants when the hormone is not present, which would make it possible to create a response model where this signaling path would play a key role.
He exhaustively tagged and recorded the activity of auxin, a hormone that plays a role in the differentiation of a plant's vascular system.
«For a long time it was speculated that plant hormones play a role in the formation of a nurse cell system in roots,» says Prof. Dr. Florian Grundler from the Molecular Phytomedicine, University of Bonn.
The plant hormone the biologists directly tracked is abscisic acid, or ABA, which plays a major role in activating drought resistance responses of plants and in regulating plant growth under environmental stress conditions.
«The scientific world has undergone a revolution in the way it understands the gastrointestinal tract, specifically the role played by the bacteria that live there... we've only just recently appreciated that if the microbiota are not being properly attended to — if they're not being fed enough plant fiber or if they're being indiscriminately wiped out by the overuse of antibiotics or they're damaged over time by excessive amounts of stress hormones — a Pandora's Box of bad things gets opened up.
The role of plants in cell signaling specifically for enhancing hormone function is presented in a summary I wrote on phytotherapeutics.