from Which source was auxins isolated for the first time?
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Kogl and Haagen-Smith first isolated naturally occurring auxin from human urine in 1931. isolated auxins were identified as Auxenotriolic acid (C18 H32 O5). Later Kogl and Haagen-Smith and Erxleben obtained another auxin in 1934.
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Auxins were isolated from human urine for the first time.
- Botanist Fritz W. Went, isolated auxin for the first time from human urine.
- Auxin(Indole-3-acetic acid) was later isolated from fungi and eventually, it was isolated from higher plants.
- The function of auxin is to regulate growth in plant hormones by stimulating cell elongation in the stems of the plants.
- IAA influences this growth of stem towards the light and away from gravity.
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