The Long and Winding Road
So far, this journey through the subject of how plants make flowers has consisted of three parts:
Part 1, an introduction to the flowering hormone florigen,
…Part 2, how environmental cues affect flowering,
..and, Part 3, how the size and age of the plant itself may trigger flowering.
The Players
Because the genetic story of [...]
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How Plants Make Flowers – Part 4: Genetics of Flowering
Posted in Flowering, tagged science, plants, botany, horticulture, Nature, Gardening on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New Plant Hormones Discovered?
Posted in Plant Hormones, tagged agriculture, botany, horticulture, plants, science on September 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What if the roots of flowering plants produced chemical signals that regulated the branching of their shoots?
Chemical signals used by plants to regulate their development and physiology are called plant hormones. Very small amounts of these compounds, acting alone or in tandem, often elicit dramatic effects on plant development. For many years there were only [...]
