Question

What is the role of auxin in plants??

Answer 1

Auxins are a powerful growth hormone produced naturally by plants. They are found in shoot and root tips and promote cell division, stem and root growth. They can also drastically affect plant orientation by promoting cell division to one side of the plant in response to sunlight and gravity.

Answer 2

Role of auxins:

• Inhibit the growth of Lateral Buds which helps in maintaining the apical dominance.
• Auxin helps in the cell elongation. It mainly helps to elongate the growth of stem.
• Auxins are produced inside the cell of Seeds, Fruits, root, bud and stem.
• Auxin enlarge the growth of the cell which later moves to the darker side of the plant to grow larger than the corresponding cell to it.
• This helps plants to make their stem tip curved.
• Auxin also promotes in the development and propose of Fruit. Because of which, proper fruits are formed on the plants.
• As we know that, Auxin is a type of "Chemotropic movement". Which shows the growth of the plant towards the external stimulus Sunlight.
• Auxin at the tip of the stem absorbs the sunlight and by the process of diffusion, the growth of plant occurs.
• This happens due to the differences in concentration.

Auxin: Auxin is a growth hormone which is mainly found at the tip of the stem. Auxin helps in the growth and development of the stem. Auxin is a type of chemical from "Chemotropic Movement". This type of movement shows the growth and development towards the external stimulus sunlight.