BOTN 642 Plant growth and development
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The internal environment and plant growth and development. Methods and techniques for the extraction, separation, isolation, purification, identification and quantification of phytohormones in higher plants - auxins, gibberellins, cytokinins, ethylene and abscisic acid. Relationships between quantities of these phytohormones and physiological phenomena - eg, dormancy; leaf flush, senescence, leaf abscission etc; mechanism or mode of action of the above phytohormones.