Plant height is one of the most important agronomic traits that could affect both crop yield and quality. Among all the hormones, gibberellins are crucial to regulate plant height. Cloning and molecular mechanism research of the plant height genes associated gibberellins have extremely important value for the regulation of crop growth and agricultural production, and have been widely used in rice, wheat and other grain crops breeding. In order to promote utilization of gibberellins in fruit trees, flowers and other horticultural crops breeding, we reviewed the regulation of plant height by gibberellins biosynthesis and signal transduction at the molecular level in this paper.
Crops, Agricultural ; genetics ; growth & development ; Flowers ; growth & development ; Fruit ; growth & development ; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ; Genes, Plant ; genetics ; Gibberellins ; biosynthesis ; pharmacology ; Plant Growth Regulators ; biosynthesis ; pharmacology ; Plant Stems ; growth & development ; Signal Transduction ; Trees ; genetics ; growth & development