Plant hormones play a crucial role in controlling the way in
which plants grow and develop. While metabolism provides the power
and building blocks for plant life, it is the hormones that
regulate the speed of growth of the individual parts and integrate
them to produce the form that we recognize as a plant.
This book is a description of these natural chemicals: how they
are synthesized and metabolized, how they act at both the
organismal and molecular levels, how we measure them, a description
of some of the roles they play in regulating plant growth and
development, and the prospects for the genetic engineering of
hormone levels or responses in crop plants. This is an updated
revision of the third edition of the highly acclaimed text.
Thirty-three chapters, including two totally new chapters plus four
chapter updates, written by a group of fifty-five international
experts, provide the latest information on Plant Hormones,
particularly with reference to such new topics as signal
transduction, brassinosteroids, responses to disease, and
expansins. The book is not a conference proceedings but a selected
collection of carefully integrated and illustrated reviews
describing our knowledge of plant hormones and the experimental
work that is the foundation of this information.
The Revised 3rd Edition adds important information that has
emerged since the original publication of the 3rd edition. This
includes information on the receptors for auxin, gibberellin,
abscisic acid and jasmonates, in addition to new chapters on
strigolactones, the branching hormones, and florigen, the flowering
hormone.
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