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Auxin Transport

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Plant Hormones and their Role in Plant Growth and Development

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The concept of translocation of chemical messengers in higher plants was expressed in the Nineteenth Century (e.g., 38) and gained concreteness with Went’s discovery of auxin (Wuchsstoff) (45) which was eventually shown to be indole-3-acetic acid (Fig. 3,1) (12). The polarity of auxin transport in cereal seedlings w&s established by the 1930s and later found to be a widespread feature of shoot and root tissues. Good recent accounts of the historical development of auxin polar transport studies are available (16,19). Polar auxin transport has long been linked, at least in theory, to polar developmental and growth phenomena such as apical dominance and tropisms. It is not a principal task of this Chapter to unravel current controversies and uncertainties in such areas, although scientific interest in polar auxin transport has been sustained and reinforced by the often implicit assumption that auxin concentration is an important physiological and developmental variable. The term ‘hormone’, denoting the concept of a transported chemical messenger, was coined in 1905 and soon applied to plants (40) although the phytohormone concept has rightly been subjected to critical analysis.

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Rubery, P.H. (1987). Auxin Transport. In: Davies, P.J. (eds) Plant Hormones and their Role in Plant Growth and Development. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3585-3_18

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