Essays Tagged: "Abscission"

Auxin - Plant Hormone

several plant activities, such as: phototropism, gravitopism, apical dominance, fruit development, abscission, and root initiation. Auxin travels in a specific direction inside a plant, it is taken ... produce auxin and so as long as they do so, they remain attached. When the auxin level declines an abscission layer forms at the base of the petiole or the fruit stalk, and the petiole or the fruit b ...

(6 pages) 38 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology