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Plant Responses to Ethylene and Ethylene Releasing Compounds

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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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Long before it was established that plant metabolism and growth is regulated and influenced by plant hormones, the action of the plant hormone ethylene on plants was observed and ethylene was recognized as the inducing agent. The first reports on ethylene action date back to 1858, describing plant responses to illuminating gas. At the end of the 19th century a pineapple farmer on the Azores, experimenting with fumes in the greenhouse to kill insects, discovered an earlier flowering of the pineapple plants after this treatment. In the following years the method to induce flowering of pineapple in the greenhouse by fumes became common on the Azores. This was probably the first application of a “plant growth regulator” in agriculture. In a report of 1901, the “triple response” of etiolated pea seedlings (growth inhibition, thickening of the subapical region, horizontal nutation) was observed to occur in the presence of illuminating gas and ethylene was identified as the inducing agent. In 1912 the induction of fruit ripening by ethylene was recognized. The role of ethylene in flower induction of pineapple was established in 1932 (Rodriguez, 1932).

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Lurssen, K. (1985). Plant Responses to Ethylene and Ethylene Releasing Compounds. 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_9

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