Auxins – Plant Growth Regulators

The following are some of the responses that auxin is known to cause:

• Stimulates cell elongation
• Stimulates cell division in the cambium and, in combination with cytokinins in tissue culture
• Stimulates differentiation of phloem and xylem
• Stimulates root initiation on stem cuttings and lateral root development in tissue culture
• Mediates the tropistic response of bending in response to gravity and light
• The auxin supply from the apical bud suppresses growth of lateral buds
• Delays leaf senescence
• Can inhibit or promote (via ethylene stimulation) leaf and fruit abscission
• Can induce fruit setting and growth in some plants
• Involved in assimilate movement toward auxin possibly by an effect on phloem transport
• Delays fruit ripening
• Promotes flowering in Bromeliads
• Stimulates growth of flower parts
• Promotes (via ethylene production) femaleness in dioecious flowers
• Stimulates the production of ethylene at high concentrations

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