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Name: Bobby
Status: other
Grade: other
Location: IN
Country: USA
Date: Summer 2012
Question:
Is there a way to increase cambium cellularity in plants via adding hormones to stimulate this growth; or if one could influence this growth if starting from tissue sample?


Replies:
That is the function of the plant hormone: auxin:

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Types-of-Plant-Hormones.topicArticleId-23791,articleId-23713.html

http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/3/735.full.pdf

Anthony R. Brach, Ph.D. Harvard University Herbaria c/o Missouri Botanical Garden


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