Hormone regulates plant growth. (Vegetation).(auxin )

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: June 1, 2003 | Copyright information

The mechanism by which a key hormone called auxin regulates the growth and development of plants by promoting the degradation of repressor proteins has been discovered by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. This eventually could allow scientists to manipulate plant growth in desirable ways.

The auxin study was conducted on a plant called Arabidopsis, the first for which the entire genome has been sequenced. Previous research had identified proteins involved...

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