New research appears to answer an old question about how the remarkable hormone Auxin works. Auxin is a sort of super-hormone that is the key to making plants grow. Two scientific teams--one in ...

There are veins in plants that move nutrients and other important molecules around. These veins have to be carefully organized, and the plant hormone called auxin helps do this by migrating from cell ...

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 ...

image: This work provides another example of how plant hormones can be used by microbes as an environmental cue, which seems to be emerging as a common strategy as scientists learn more about how ...

Auxin, a pivotal plant hormone, orchestrates a wide range of developmental processes including cell division, elongation, organ formation and responses to environmental stimuli. Its signalling ...

This release is available in German. During the development of organisms, a particular event repeatedly occurs: a signal appears temporarily, but the processes it triggers must be maintained – for ...

Scientists have discovered how plants adapt their root systems in drought conditions to grow steeper into the soil to access deeper water reserves. The study highlights how ABA and auxin, another key ...

A new study finds that a unique mechanism involving calcium, the plant hormone auxin and a calcium-binding protein is responsible for regulating plant growth. Plant growth is strongly shaped by ...

Auxin is the phytohormone responsible for many aspects of plant growth and development, such as apical dominance and tropisms, but the underlying auxin transport mechanisms remain poorly understood.

In his botanical laboratory at the University of Chicago, Professor George Konrad Karl Link recently made a discovery which he considered so noteworthy that he sent a report of it all the way to ...

At first glance, plant and animal cells have a lot in common: they’re both highly organized, keep their DNA tucked away in an envelope, and are kinda juicy inside. But plant cells have evolved some ...