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Plant Hormone Activity: Stilbœstrol applied to the Wheat Seedling

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THE presence in plants of substances having œstrogenic activity has been known for some time, œstrone, œstriol and œstrogenic iso-flavones having been isolated from a number of plants1. Many plant hormones are also known to exhibit hypo-glycæemic activity in animals. On the other hand, this may be the result of inhibition of insulinase and not a hormonal effect, although the auxin and insulinase-inhibiting activities of a number of indole-acids, chloro-phenoxyacetic and chloro-benzoic acids run parallel2. There is also evidence to show that the sex of flowers of the normally diœcious Melandrium dioicum can be partially influenced by mammalian œstrogenic and androgenic hormones3.

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HINTON, J., MORAN, T. Plant Hormone Activity: Stilbœstrol applied to the Wheat Seedling. Nature 187, 258–259 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187258a0

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