Plant growth requires teamwork between two hormones

Monday, August 17, 2015 - 11:30 in Biology & Nature

Two growth-promoting groups of substances, or phytohormones, the gibberellins and the brassinosteroids, are used independently of each other for the breeding and production of crop plants. A team of scientists has now discovered that the two act in concert -- without brassinosteroids, a plant is unable to produce gibberellins.

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