Introduction
Plant hormones are small active molecules acting in concert to control many aspects of plant growth, development, and adaptive responses to environmental stimuli. Most plant hormones are small chemical molecules acting at rather low concentrations either locally or after short- or long-distance transport within the plant. Among these, the hormone auxin is involved in a multitude of biological processes and is often considered as the major phytohormone. The word auxin originates from the Greek word auxein, which literally means to grow/increase, a name befitting a hormone that was initially identified as a molecule stimulating shoot organ elongation. Since then, more subtle features about auxin’s regulation of the elongation response (either promoting or inhibiting the response) and many additional activities of the hormone have been demonstrated including tropisms, control of various aspects of cell division (gene expression and protein turnover of cell cycle regulators,...
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The author is supported by the Institut des Sciences Biologiques from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. As a work of tertiary literature, most references come from edited books or book chapters explaining why only very few original research articles are cited here.
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Perrot-Rechenmann, C. (2014). Auxin Signaling in Plants. In: Howell, S. (eds) Molecular Biology. The Plant Sciences, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7570-5_15
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