History of Plant Hormone Research

Journal of plant growth regulation

Special Issue "History of Plant Hormone Research"

2015, Vol. 34  - edited by Hartwig Lüthen and Jutta Ludwig-Müller

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From the editorial: "Our understanding of how plant hormones work has tremendously increased over the last decades. However, such progress was not possible without those who laid the foundation of the work which was sometimes much more tedious in early days than today. Therefore, we thought it timely to follow-up on historical aspects of plant hormone research. The development in the field of auxins, cytokinins, gibberellins, abscisic acid, jasmonates, brassinosteroids, and ethylene are accompanied with personal recollections. Plant hormones cannot go without plant growth regulators which have been developed for commercial reasons, but are also used in many cases nowadays as tools to investigate a specific role of a hormone in planta. This issue is also hopefully a useful collection for those scientists who want to get an overview of how their ‘‘favorite hormone’’ started."

Contents:

Jutta Ludwig-Müller, Hartwig Lüthen. From Facts and False Routes: How Plant Hormone Research Developed, pp. 697-701 article 

Hartwig Lüthen. What We Can Learn from Old Auxinology, pp. 702-707 article 

Nathan D. Tivendale, Jerry D. Cohen. Analytical History of Auxin, pp. 708-722 article 

Miroslav Kamínek. Tracking the Story of Cytokinin Research, pp. 723-739 article 

Peter Hedden, Valerie Sponsel. A Century of Gibberellin Research, pp. 740-760 article 

Claus Wasternack. How Jasmonates Earned their Laurels: Past and Present, pp. 761-794 article 

Karl Dörffling. The Discovery of Abscisic Acid: A Retrospect, pp. 795-808 article 

Arkadipta Bakshi, Jennifer M. Shemansky, Caren Chang, Brad Binder. History of Research on the Plant Hormone Ethylene, pp. 809-827 article 

Steven D. Clouse. A History of Brassinosteroid Research from 1970 through 2005: Thirty-Five Years of Phytochemistry, Physiology, Genes, and Mutants, pp. 828-844 article 

Wilhelm Rademacher. Plant Growth Regulators: Backgrounds and Uses in Plant Production, pp. 845-872 article