Induction of Flowering in Long Day Plants by Applied Indoleacetic Acid
Open Access
- 1 March 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 31 (2), 147-150
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.31.2.147
Abstract
Indoleacetic acid (IAA) has been used to induce flowering in Hyoscyamus niger and Silene armeria, long day species. When these species are given daily cycles of 8 hrs. of high intensity light in the greenhouse followed by 16 hrs. of supplementary incandescent light of such low intensity that controls remain vegetative, application of IAA causes as much as 100% flowering. IAA was applied daily as a water solution containing a detergent. The effective concentration varies from 3 to 30 mg/L. apparently depending upon the physiological state of the plant at time of treatment.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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