The below mentioned article provides a study-note on the brassinosteroids in plants. Brassinosteroids or brassins are a recently discovered group of steroids that have distinct growth promoting activity in some plants especially in stems. These compounds were first isolated in 1979 from bee collected pollen grains of rape (Brassica napus), a mustard (hence the name brassins). Brassinosteroids are now known [...]
The plants or their organs like all other living organisms have a certain span of life during which they develop, grow, attain maturity and after some time at the end die. But prior to death, distinctive but natural deteriorative processes occur in them in growth and synthetic activities. These deteriorative processes that naturally terminate their functional life are collectively called [...]
The below mentioned article provides a short note on the synthetic auxins in plant. After the isolation and characterisation of Indole Acetic Acid as the natural auxin a number of other chemical compounds have been synthesized which also exhibit auxin activity. They are called as synthetic auxins. Some of the commonly known synthetic auxins are for example, Indole-3-propionic acid, Indole-3-pyruvic [...]