Team:UNSW Australia/Lab/Plants
Plants
Overview
Auxins are plant hormones which are involved in the regulation of plant growth and development. Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings were grown in media containing varying concentrations of the auxin indole-3-aecetic acid (IAA), to observe its effect on growth and development. Reduced primary root growth was observed at higher concentrations of IAA while lateral root number was increased at these concentrations, exhibiting phenotypes common with a stress induced morphology. From these results and comments made by PlantBank researchers consulted by our team, who had found that addition of exogenous IAA showed no benefit, we determined that IAA synthesis was not an appropriate pathway to purse for commercialisation with our scaffold.