PEBO 411: Plant Hormones

This course describes and gives an insight into the building blocks of plant hormones that regulate the speed of growth of the individual parts and integrate them into the form that we recognise as plants. The course will highlight methods of plant hormone analysis which will include the principles behind extraction, separation methods based on factors such as polarity, ionic nature, size and shape of molecule, isolation, identification and quantification; the various pathways such as the shikimate pathway leading to the production of auxin and aromatic secondary metabolites, determination of sequence of amino acids in proteins.