Question

Who Discovered Auxin

Answer 1

Auxin

1. Auxin was one of the first major plant hormones to be discovered.
2. The first persons associated with the discovery of auxins are Charles Darwin and his son Francis in the early 1880s.
3. Isolation of auxin at the tip of the oat coleoptile in the gelatin block was first done by Dutch botanist Fritz Went in 1928.
4. Apical dominance is a phenomenon in which central stem is dominant and lateral stems are suppressed.
5. It is due to plant hormone auxin produced in the tip of the shoot.
6. Auxin hormone is responsible for apical dominance and cytokinin hormone is responsible for breaking the apical dominance.