About Lesson
Introduction
- Plant hormones and growth regulators are chemicals that affect flowering, aging, root growth, distortion and killing of leaves, stems, and other parts; prevention or promotion of stem elongation, etc.
- A plant growth regulator is also an organic compound, either natural or synthetic, that modifies or controls one or more specific physiological processes within a plant through translocation. And they can be either synthetic or natural. The growth regulators include:
- Auxins
- Gibberellins
- Cytokinins
- Ethylene
- Abscisic acid
- Flowering hormones
- Florigen, Anthesins, Vernalin
