H. Greer, I. Anderson
May 1, 1965
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Crop Science
Abstract
TRIIODOBENZOIC acid (TIBA) has been used to increase floral development of plants. Zimmerman and Hitchcock (9) reported that TIBA, when applied to tomato plants, would cause ordinary vegetative buds to produce flowers. They also noticed that more axillary growth was produced by plants treated with TIBA. Galston (4) studied the effects of TIBA on flowering in soybeans. He reported that vegetative plants were not induced to flower by TIBA, but photoinduced plants showed a ten-fold increase in the number or floral buds.