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gib·ber·el·lin

 (jĭb′ə-rĕl′ĭn)
n.
Any of several plant hormones, such as gibberellic acid, that stimulate stem elongation, seed germination, and other physiological processes.

[From New Latin Gibberella (fujikoroī), the fungus from which a gibberellin was first isolated, from Latin gibberella, feminine diminutive of gibber, hump (from the humplike shape of the genus's perithecia).]
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gibberellin

(ˌdʒɪbəˈrɛlɪn)
n
(Botany) any of several plant hormones, including gibberellic acid, whose main action is to cause elongation of the stem: used in promoting the growth of plants, in the malting of barley, etc
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gib•ber•el•lin

(ˌdʒɪb əˈrɛl ɪn)

n.
any of a class of growth hormones occurring in fungi and plants.
[1935–40; < New Latin Gibberella]
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Noun1.gibberellin - a plant hormone isolated from a fungus; used in promoting plant growth
growth regulator, phytohormone, plant hormone - (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone
gibberellic acid - a crystalline acid associated with gibberellin
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It is already known that the plant hormone gibberellin controls how root cells elongate as the root grows in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
Because scientific communication was so poor between the Orient and the Western world at the time, the information was not "discovered" by Westerners until British workers reported in 1955 that minute quantities of gibberellin acid would cause genetically dwarfed pea plants to grow to a normal size.
At shoot length measurement after a 14 day growth period, the cultures grown in the potentised growth substances showed a measurable effect on the seed growth characteristics when compared to the control substance, the most notable of these, gibberellin 17X, producing the largest growth stimulation.
Tokyo, Japan, Feb 1, 2006 - (JCN) - RIKEN announced on January 30 that its Plant Science Center has discovered an inactivation mechanism of gibberellin, a kind of hormone that promotes plant growth, in collaboration with Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS).
Ordonio, Scientist I from the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) of the DA, found for the first time in sorghum that gibberellin (GA) is crucial for the erectness of its culum.