Plant hormones
Hormones from Gr. to excite natural chemical messengers transported to target cells minute concentrations = substantial change growth regulators
Plants respond to stimuli
Plant hormones coordinate growth, development and responses to stimuli Tropisms growth responses organs curve towards (+) or away from (-) a stimulus ex. phototropism, thigmotropism, gravitropism
Studies on phototropism towards or away from light differential growth of cells on opposite sides of a shoot or coleoptile cells on darker side elongate faster than those on the light side experiments by Darwin and son and FW Went due to auxin distributions
Went experiment