Plants: Defying frost and the cold with hormones

06 Oct 2016


Brassinosteroids are plant hormones which until now have been regarded as growth hormones. Now new research shows that they increase the resistance of plants to frost.  The study was conducted by researchers in Germany and the UK and published in PNAS.

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