An international team made up of researchers from INRA de Versailles, CNRS/Université de Toulouse, and the University of Queensland in Australia has just identified a new vegetable hormone that blocks the branching out of plants’ shoots. Currently only a handful of hormones that control plant development in their environment have been described. The team’s work has been published in the August 10, 2008, issue of Nature.

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