Which plant hormones are critical in responding to drought conditions? How do plant hormone responses adjust to environmental ...

Enhanced interactions between plant biology and chemical biology offer great potential for shared concepts, tools and insights that will advance each discipline. This special issue highlights emerging ...

The article redefines and classifies the functions of the 10 groups of plant hormones identified to date in the plant world, ...

Steroids bulk up plants just as they do human athletes, but the molecular signals that tell the genes to boost growth and development in plant cells is far more complicated than in human and animal ...

Plant roots provide the crops we eat with water, nutrients and anchorage. Understanding how roots grow and how hormones control that growth is crucial to improving crop yields, necessary to address ...

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT ...

Researchers have long known that the plant hormone auxin, or indole-3-acetic acid, regulates a broad range of biological functions, including flowering, fruit ripening, and root elongation. But they ...

The striking capacity for plants to adapt their growth and development to an ever-changing environment is mediated by diverse plant hormones that regulate virtually every aspect of plant life. In the ...

Researchers have long known that the plant hormone auxin, or indole-3-acetic acid, regulates a broad range of biological functions, including flowering, fruit ripening, and root elongation. But they ...

Wolfgang Busch is a professor of biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, where he also serves as the executive director of the Harnessing Plants Initiative. He ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University scientists Natalia Dudareva and Joseph Lynch have been searching for a way to increase a plant’s production of phenylalanine, a compound important for plant ...

Hormones are small signaling molecules that travel between cells and deliver messages to switch on and off specific genes — affecting behavior, environmental responses and growth. Human hormones ...