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Advantages and disadvantages of artificial plant hormones

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Plants have hormone-like signalling molecules, like the auxins, that regulate growth. They are produced by the plant naturally to encourage, for example, extending roots, or growing taller, or leafier.

Synthetic auxins can either be copies of the natural molecules or entirely man-made molecules that do the same or similar things. One example of a synthetic auxin is . In some applications, at lower concentrations, this molecule can cause a plant cell from a part of the plant to grow as if it were a seed. In higher concentrations, it kills plants by causing uncontrolled growth, and can be used as a herbicide to kill weeds.

The obvious advantage of using synthetic plant “hormones” is you can control how and when and where they grow.