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Auxin Transport

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The concept of translocation of chemical messengers in higher plants was proposed in the nineteenth century by Charles Darwin. From experiments on the response of oat seedlings to light, Darwin suggested that the translocation of an unknown substance might regulate the phototropic response. The chemical messenger was later shown to be auxin, of which indole-3-acetic acid (IAA; Fig. 1, I) was found to be the predominant, naturally-occurring form. The polarity of auxin transport in cereal seedlings was established by the 1930s, and later found to be a widespread feature of shoot and root tissues. Excellent reviews of the historical development of auxin polar transport studies are available elsewhere (12).

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  1. Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Corvallis, 97331-2902, OR, USA

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  2. Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, 27109, NC, USA

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  3. Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK

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Lomax, T.L., Muday, G.K., Rubery, P.H. (1995). Auxin Transport. In: Davies, P.J. (eds) Plant Hormones. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0473-9_24

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