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The Molecular Basis of Hormone Action

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Hormonal Regulation of Plant Growth and Development

Part of the book series: Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology ((AABI,volume 16))

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Several chapters in this volume will describe the various physiological effects of plant hormones and some of the current views regarding the mechanisms of action of plant hormones. The progress in this field has been quite spectacular in recent years but probably it would have been more so, if workers in this field were less fascinated by hormone effects on extension growth and had paid equal emphasis to other aspects which are not generally considered as growth processes. An understanding of hormone action is dependent on the location of the sites of action and the multiplicity of such sites is explicit in the large variety of the effects which the hormones evoke. The mechanisms of hormone action proposed so far, though based on considerable experimental evidence with respect to one or two aspects of hormone action, are quite often oversimplifications. Generalisation is certainly useful as a working hypothesis but if they are carried too far, truth recedes further in the background. Although there are considerable similarities between plant and animal life, in searching for unity, we should not forget the diversity. Thus, analogy between plant and animal hormone effects is certainly useful and sometimes it has speeded up development in this field but this may not be the case always.

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Sen, S.P. (1985). The Molecular Basis of Hormone Action. In: Purohit, S.S. (eds) Hormonal Regulation of Plant Growth and Development. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5139-6_1

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