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What process if responsible for plants growing towards the light

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his type of light-oriented growth is called phototropism,” explains Prof. Claus Schwechheimer from the Chair of Plant Systems Biology at the Technische Universität München (TUM). The substance responsible for cell elongation is auxin

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The plant hormone auxin is responsible for a plant's ability to grow towards the light. Plants have developed a number of strategies to capture the maximum amount of sunlight through their leaves