Physiological responses, brassinosteroids

Biochemical and Physiological Responses. Brassinosteroids have been reported to elicit several plant physiological functions, including the follow-ing 7) ... 

Physiological Responses. Brassinosteroids promote plant growth by promoting cell elongation and cell division. In the presence of other plant hormones, when tested in systems specifically designed for them, brassinosteroids show the following effects, which are reversible (7—10) ... 

Bioassay Studies of Brassins - BARC As indicated by Mandava (3), bioassay systems have been rather extensively used to study brassins physiology. In addition to the bean 2nd internode bioassay, the bean first internode curvature bioassay (28) and the mung bean epicotyl bioassay (29) were found to be useful by Meudt and Gregory. In many cases, details of early brassins studies using these and other assay systems were not published because the chemical nature of the active component(s) of brassins was unknown at the time. However, types of responses obtained with the synthetic brassinosteroids were essentially the same as those obtained with brassins (29, 30, 31, 32, 33). ... 

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