Root Growth (IMAGE)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Root Growth

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Normally, the hormone auxin makes roots short. A new, synthetic version of the hormone does the same thing, researchers discovered. Exposure to increasing levels of synthetic auxin (left to right) decreased root length in seedlings engineered to detect the hormone.

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N. Uchida et al./<i>Nature Chemical Biology</i> 2018

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