Plant hormone response mutants

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.1990.tb08729.x
• Publication Date: 2006-05-01T02:08:56Z
• Authors: I. M. Scott
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences

A variety of plant hormone response mutants has now been described, and is surveyed in this article. In addition to hormone‐insensitive mutant phenotypes with defects in hormone‐related features, there exist mutants apparently constitutive for the gibberellin responses, and also a mutant hyper‐responsive to gibberellin. Although there is still little biochemical evidence on the nature of these mutants, the emerging picture of their genetic dominance relationships has given rise to tentative suggestions of the involvement of represser functions in hormonal control systems.