Plant Hormones: Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Plant hormones play a crucial role in controlling the way in which plants growand develop. Whilemetabolism providesthepowerand buildingblocks for plant life, it is the hormones that regulate the speed of growth of the individual parts and integrate these parts to produce the form that we recognize as a plant. In addition, theyplayacontrolling role inthe processes of reproduction. This book is a description of these natural chemicals: how they are synthesizedand metabolized; howthey work; wh...