GA-3
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- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 21:28:11 +0200
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Gibberellic Acids are natural growth hormones in
plants. They were discovered during the study of a disease affecting rice plants
in Japan in 1926, but remained unknown to the West until the 1950's , due to the
political situation after the 2nd World War. The disease called bakanae is
caused by the fungus Fusarium moniliforme ( previously called Gibberella
fujikuroi ). This fungus produces high concentrations of gibberellins in the
plants, which causes them to elongate and make the plants very thin and
long.
Smaller concentrations of gibberellins occur in
all plants. More than 60 different types are known, but GA-3 ( C19H22O6 ) is the one most
widely studied. Commercially gibberellins are used to make seedless grapes, and
to increase the concentration of sugar in sugar cane . It is used in the form of
gibberellic acid ( white crystals ) produced with the help of Fusarium
moniliforme.
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