Plant Steroids Offer New Paradigm For How Hormones Work
Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 23:21
in Biology & Nature
Steroids bulk up plants just as they do human athletes, but the molecular signals that tell the genes to boost growth and development in plant cells is far more complicated than in human and animal cells. Understanding how these plant hormones activate genes could lead not only to enhanced harvests but also to new insights into how steroids regulate growth in both plant and animal cells.