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Abscisic Acid and Related Compounds

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Biochemistry and Physiology of Plant Hormones

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Regulation of the growth and development of plants is dependent on the kinds and amounts of the various hormones and on the changing sensitivity of the tissues to these substances throughout ontogeny. Yet the survival of plants as individual organisms and as populations and species over multiple generations depends also on deceleration or cessation of growth and development of resistance to stress at critical stages in the life cycles. Coping with water stress and other environmentally imposed adverse conditions by relatively rapid physiological changes is a frequent and essential manifestation of the adaptation of terrestrial plants to their often highly changeable physical environments. Longer term and more gradually developing suspensions of growth, or deceleration to barely perceptible rates, called “dormancy,” also are common features of the ontogeny of seed plants. Dormancy is a phenomenon of profound biological significance, because it provides a means by which plants are enabled to survive periods of environmental conditions that would be adverse or lethal to plants in an active state of growth. In the case of annual plants, dormancy of seeds is commonplace. In biennials and perennials, dormancy of the buds of established plants and of their seeds and storage organs (e.g., bulbs, corms, and tubers) are typical events in the life cycles.

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Moore, T.C. (1989). Abscisic Acid and Related Compounds. In: Biochemistry and Physiology of Plant Hormones. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3654-2_5

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