BIOL 1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Meristem, Cytokinin, Signal Transduction

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Roles of hormones: chemical signals that coordinate cell response, travel within phloem or from cell. Response to stimuli: signal transduction= response to environmental stimuli. *remember name of hormone and what it does* Auxins: produced in shoot of apical meristem (top part that has grown, found in young leaves, flowers, and fruits, promotes positive phototropism of stems. Gibberellins: cause stem elongation, most common is gibberellic acid. Cytokinin: class of hormones promote cell division and organ formation, help prevent senescence (aging process) In fall low levels of cytokinin cause leaves to change colors and die. Abscisic acid (aba: produced by any green tissue (tissue containing chloroplasts) *found in ground tissue: sometimes called stress hormone, promotes closure of stomata. Ethylene: a gas formed from the amino acid methionine, effects of ethylene, abscission (dropping of leaves of plant, ripening of fruits (e. g. putting fruit in bag to ripen, suppression of stem and root elongation.

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