Hormones are special chemical messengers that carry signals from one cell to another and are diminutively needed for a change in cell metabolism. While hormones are vital to the overall success of plants, target cells contribute to the process by responding to hormones; a biological activity that is essentially dependent on the containment of specific receptors vital to a particular hormone. In general, hormones are important in their control over plant growth and development through their effects on division elongation and differentiation of cells (Bio167 Lab Manual, 2015). The hormone that will be worked with in this experiment is gibberellin. Gibberellin functions to stimulate rapid cell growth and has been successfully used in previous
