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Re: Gib vs Auxin #2

Thanks again. Denise!
    Hopefully this is now much clearer for any others besides myself.
(Alas, the Willows in mind are a couple shrubby alpines and I could not
get plant material; most of the 4-6 week shelf life was spent just
getting here, and I do not know if the providers did anything, if there
is anything, to prolong their life before that.)
    It's largely the stucture of the molecules in question rather than
the activity, that I am thinking of, or at least I can't yet correlate
the latter that well. I was trying to look at Salvia pisidica as
low-apical dominance, with disproportionately large flowers, from it's
description, and think of what this implies hormonally. (The similar S.
caespitosa however, does not necessarily have any such inherent
"problems", I think, but there are varied reports on this. Fresh seed
has sometimes been reported to be necessary.)
    Granted I'm not a chemist, (I can't presently locate anything with-
was it Tony Swain?- and the remainder of diagrams I have for the
hormones look like bunk) but I was referring to Krytotanshinone &
probably some similar diterpenes (Hegnauer, Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen-
to keep things down to a mild snore, I much wanted to also draw the
"little arrows"- biosynthetic relationships- between figures 7 & 8 and
also 7 & 9, pg. 592 Labiate (2) Vol?- I am not altogether sure why.)
     I should maybe even be thinking that's Gib and kinin! (I'm not
willing to suggest as yet that the molecule aspires to be all three.)

Good gardens!

Rob

udsa z 5 (?) ave. temp: minus any rilly Good plant not on the south side
of the house
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