Plant hormones
Hormones Hormone – Gr. « to excite » Natural chemical messengers that are transported to target cells Minute concentrations needed to induce a substantial change Growth regulators
Plants respond to stimuli
Plant hormones coordinate growth, development and responses to stimuli Tropisms Growth response resulting in plant organs curving towards or away from a stimulus Caused by hormones 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