Editorial: The application of phytohormones in plant biotechnology for sustainable agriculture

Nqobile A Masondo; Shubhpriya Gupta; Mack Moyo; Adeyemi O Aremu

doi:10.3389/fpls.2024.1382055

Editorial: The application of phytohormones in plant biotechnology for sustainable agriculture

Front Plant Sci. 2024 Mar 5:15:1382055. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1382055. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Nqobile A Masondo¹, Shubhpriya Gupta^{2

3}, Mack Moyo⁴, Adeyemi O Aremu^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Agricultural Research Council - Vegetable Industrial and Medicinal Plants, Pretoria, South Africa.
² Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Faculty of Science, Palacký University & Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR, Olomouc, Czechia.
³ Research Centre for Plant Growth and Development, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg, Scottsville, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
⁵ School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
⁶ Indigenous Knowledge Systems Centre, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Mmabatho, South Africa.

No abstract available

Keywords: auxins; biotic stress; cytokinins; flowering; phytochemicals; plant growth regulators.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. We acknowledge the financial support received from the South African Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and National Research Foundation (NRF) Grants UID: 138092 (NM), 150734 (AA), CSRP2204041882 (SG) and Durban University of Technology UCDG Grant (MM).