Hormonal control of apical dominance. Studies in tobacco transformed with bacterial luciferase and Agrobacterium rol genes

Abstract

Techniques of molecular genetics are being used with increasing success for the study of hormone action in plant development. Plants are transformed by the incorporation of foreign genes that code for hormone synthesis, alter developmental response, or allow the analysis of promoters and other gene regulatory signals (Weising et al., 1988). These and other techniques of molecular genetics (Klee and Estelle, 1991), as well as the availability of advanced methods of plant hormone analysis (see Cohen et al., 1990), are the cause of unprecedented progress in many areas of plant hormone physiology.KeywordsLuciferase ActivityApical DominanceStem SectionPolar Auxin TransportBacterial LuciferaseThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.