Chapter 13

Chemical Signaling During an Organism’s Growth and Development

Narcin Palavan-Unsal, Valentin Kefeli and Winfried Blum

Abstract

The accumulation of plant biomass in plants is regulated by two factors – genomes and plant growth regulating system. Hormones as growth regulating factors are located in different zones of plant organisms. They have specific effects in plant bodies like auxins (roots induction), gibberellins (stem elongation), cytokinins (cell multiplications).

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