From Facts and False Routes: How Plant Hormone Research Developed

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Abstract

Our understanding of how plant hormones work has tremendously increased over the last decades. However, such progress was not possible without those who laid the foundation of the work which was sometimes much more tedious in early days than today. Therefore, we thought it timely to follow-up on historical aspects of plant hormone research. The development in the field of auxins, cytokinins, gibberellins, abscisic acid, jasmonates, brassinosteroids, and ethylene are accompanied with personal recollections. Plant hormones cannot go without plant growth regulators which have been developed for commercial reasons, but are also used in many cases nowadays as tools to investigate a specific role of a hormone in planta. This issue is also hopefully a useful collection for those scientists who want to get an overview of how their “favorite hormone” started.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)697-701
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of plant growth regulation
Volume34
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 5 Oct 2015
Peer-reviewedYes

Keywords

Keywords

  • Editorial, History, Plant hormone

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