Question

Who Discovered Florigen?

Answer 1

1. Mikhail Chailakhyan in 1936 demonstrated that flowering can be induced by graft transmission.
2. He explained that it was due to plant hormone which stimulates flowering. He named it florigen.
3. It is produced in the leaves and acts on buds and growing tips.
4. Florigen is the hypothesized hormone-like molecules responsible for controlling flowering in plants.
5. It is produced in the leaves and acts in the shoot apical meristem of buds and growing tips.
6. It is known to be graft-transmissible and even functions between species.