Integration of soybean pod development and monocarpic senescence

Integration of soybean pod development and monocarpic senescence

1984

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A review on soybean pod wall development and monocarpic senescence is presented. At least some of the known (and probably some unknown) hormones function in the correlative control of pod development and monocarpic senescence in soybean, but we are a long way from integrating this fragmentary information. Only for cytokinin is a cohesive picture of its role in the reproductive soybean starting to emerge. Although indirect evidence suggests that the developing pods may cause monocarpic senescence in soybean through production of a senescence-inducing hormone (senescence signal, m), this only represents the simplest explanation for a variety of observations, and no direct evidence has been found. If the senescence signal is a senescence-inducing hormone, then it does not seem to be one of the above hormones. [AS/SS]

v.62(2):273-284, PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

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