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Article: gibberellins
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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gibberellins , a group of growth-regulating substances of plants, having complex chemical structure, of which the best known, gibberellic acid, is noted for its promotion of stem growth. In Japan it was long known that when rice seedlings were attacked by the fungus
Gibberella fujikuroi
they would grow to several times their normal height and then die, a phenomenon the Japanese called "the foolish seedling ...
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