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 ...

Gardeners and farmers have used the plant hormone auxin for decades, but how plants produce and distribute auxin has been a long-standing mystery. Now researchers at the University of California, San ...

The plant growth hormone auxin is controlled by circadian rhythms within the plant, UC Davis researchers have found. The discovery explains how plants can time their growth to take advantage of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Plants that grow well tend to be sensitive to heat and drought, and plants that can handle those stresses often have stunted growth. A Purdue University plant scientist has ...

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), working in close collaboration with KeyGene, have developed a method ...

HHMI researchers have found an enzyme involved in the production of the plant hormone auxin. Researchers have identified an enzyme involved in the production of auxin, a plant growth hormone that ...

Researchers have identified an enzyme involved in the production of auxin, a plant growth hormone that influences many aspects of plant growth, including cell division and flowering. Although auxin ...

Just like any other organism, plants can get stressed. Usually, conditions like heat and drought lead to this stress, and when they’re stressed, plants might not grow as large or produce as much. This ...

Often called the dormancy hormone, abscisic acid inhibits any growth processes from starting at incorrect times.

Malathy Palayam, Aleczander Young, Lior Tal, and Nitzan Shabek at the UC Davis Department of Plant Biology are exploring the mechanism by which the plant hormone strigoractone regulates a massive ...