Chemistry of Plant Hormones

Download or read book Chemistry of Plant Hormones written by Nobutaka Takahashi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chemistry of the five principal plant hormone groups is discussed in detail in this volume. Contributing authors review history and occurrence of each hormone group, methods of isolation and detection, biosynthesis and metabolism, and structural determination. Through these analyses, the authors clarify the role of endogenous plant growth regulators in the life cycle of higher plants. The text is supplemented with over 350 figures and structures of various plant hormones.