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Auxins
A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant life cycle.
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A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant life cycle.
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| plantsnoun | A surname from German. |
| plantnoun | (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree. |
| phytonoun | (informal) A phytosanitary certificate. |
| cropsnoun | (agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose. |
| indolesnoun | Natural disposition; innate character; unalterable intrinsic traits and qualities (collectively). |
| cytokininnoun | (biochemistry) Any of a class of plant hormones involved in cell growth and division. |
| lupinesnoun | North American English form of lupin (any plant of the genus Lupinus; an edible legume seed of one of these plants). [Any member of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae.] |
| annualsnoun | An annual publication; a book, periodical, journal, report, comic book, yearbook, etc., which is published serially once a year, which may or may not be in addition to regular weekly or monthly publication. |
| phytanenoun | (organic chemistry) A diterpenoid alkane with one more carbon than pristane. |
| seedsnoun | (cellular automata) A Life-like cellular automaton with the rule B2/S. |
| lignansnoun | (organic chemistry) Any of a class of phenylpropanoid (propylbenzene) type of molecules found in essentially all plants, generally dimeric or higher order, and produced by secondary metabolic pathways branching off of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis, in some cases having associated antioxidant or estrogenic (phytoestrogenic) activities; having in common with lignin the phenylpropanoid monomers, where lignin is a random oxidative polymerization of the same |
| herbsnoun | a New Zealand reggae group founded in 1979 and led by singer-guitarist Dilworth Karaka, the only constant member. |
| phytolnoun | (organic chemistry) The diterpenoid alcohol (2E,7R,11R)-3,7,11,15-tetramethyl-2-hexadecen-1-ol, derived from chlorophyll. |
| gibberellinnoun | (biochemistry) Any of a class of diterpene plant growth hormones first isolated from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi. |
| grassesnoun | (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. |
| bioflavonoidnoun | flavonoid |
| brassicasnoun | Any of many plants of the genus Brassica, including cabbage, mustard and rapes |
| weedsnoun | (obsolete) Clothes. |
| gramineaenoun | the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane |
| cultivarsnoun | A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species. |
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