How come the plant hormone auxin functions one way in one location, and a different way elsewhere?
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
Auxin is a simple yet powerful hormone which, depending on where it accumulates, controls a large number of growth mechanisms in plants. Dolf Weijers, Professor in Biochemistry of Plant Development at Wageningen University, is trying to discover how this multifunctionality develops and how it works. He was awarded a Vici grant worth €1.5 million for his research.