Background The phytohormone auxin is critical for plant growth and orchestrates many
developmental processes.• Scope This review considers the complex array of mechanisms …

Synthetic compounds that act like phytohormonal 'superauxins' have been among the most
successful herbicides used in agriculture for more than 60 years. These so‐called auxin …

This is a short review of the classical and new, natural and synthetic plant hormones and
growth regulators (phytohormones) and highlights some of their uses in plant tissue culture …

We have recovered eight new auxin-resistant lines of Arabidopsis that carry mutations in the
AXR1 gene. These eight lines, together with the 12 lines described in a previous report …

While earthworms are known to improve plant growth by improving the structure of the soil,
recent work has suggested that earthworms also produced humic substances endowed with …

Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroid hormones that play an essential role in plant growth and
development. However, the contradictory results of previous studies make their role in cell …

Different aspects of the in vitro somatic embryogenesis regulation are reviewed in this paper.
work. A description of g General aspects, such as terminology, uses, stages of development …

Benzyladenine (BA) is the most widely used cytokinin in the micropropagation industry due
to its effectiveness and affordability. It, however, has disadvantages such as genetic …

Cell expansion, and its coordination with cell division, plays a critical role in the growth and
development of plant organs. However, the genes controlling cell expansion during …

Part I Orchid seeds are nearly microscopic in size. Because of that, many fanciful theories
were proposed for the origin of orchids. Almost 400 years separate the time when orchid …