STEROID hormones are not restricted to the animal kingdom. Researchers in California have found that a class of plant steroids, whose function was unknown, are hormones that enable plants to grow normally in response to light.
Steroids contain four rings of carbon atoms and are used by vertebrates as hormones. Androgens, for example, promote the growth of facial hair and muscle in men. Plants also have hormones, but those studied until now have been simpler molecules.
Joanne Chory and her team at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla stumbled upon the hormonal role of plant steroids while studying a mutant of thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana. The mutants remain stunted and their leaves cannot photosynthesise properly. The researchers pinpointed the defective gene, called det2, and found that it is similar to a human gene that codes for an enzyme used to make androgens.
This suggested that the mutant plants were unable to make a steroid required for growth. The most widespread plant steroids are the brassinosteroids, and the pathway used to make one of these steroids, brassinolide, involves an enzyme similar to that encoded by the det2 gene. When the researchers added brassinolide to det2 mutant seedlings, the plants grew normally ( Science, vol 272, p 39
. "Now we have the genetic evidence that if you block synthesis of the steroid, the plant cannot develop," says Jianming Li, one of the researchers.
In the latest issue of Cell (vol 85, p 171), a team led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne describes other Arabidopsis mutants which underline the hormonal role of plant steroids. The mutants are stunted and have defects in other genes involved in the manufacture of brassinolide.
i only skimmed this "what i read quickly" sort of describes what im on about here
so you know im not just making this up "its also the first page i clicked that sorta explained at leat parts of what im talking about
what a lot of these articles do but dont mention well is the weed aspect
you can get steroids that make it grow better, bud bigger, or just be good for both of them
do a search and find one thats good for budding or fruiting shal we say.. also try stick to the one that works for plants close to weed if you cant get one specifically maybe one that suits the hops plant or something else close to marijuana
what you want is one thats gonna mainly promote your buds to be big and strong
remember you dont really have to worry about the plant they dnt gotta worry about dick shrinkage like we do
sorry i dont remember the name ma mate doesnt either so yeah sorry bout that
sorry for the description it only skims what im on about its so you know there are such things and as i said b4 so u know i aint full of shit
this page may be better for u sorry about the first bit
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080724150024.htm
