LINKS AND REFERENCES                                                                          

In case you don't follow my methodology, here's a link to another blog on the same subject as a different view may make  things a bit clearer: kevinsplantscience

The following website was originally set up by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and contains a great overview of auxins along with details on other plant hormones : Info on plant hormones

Most of my reading for this subject has come from two books, namely;

Plant Physiology 4th Ed., 1992, Frank Salisbury and Cleon Ross, Wadsworth Publishing Co. California, USA, Pages 357 - 372

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2000, Bob Buchanan, Wilhelm Gruissem and Russell Jones Eds., American Society of Plant Physiologists, Maryland, USA, Pages 884 - 895

The paper named below is only about 3 pages and shows one of the early experiments using auxin that had been isolated. It's interesting in that it describes the observed effect on a cellular level in as far as could be determined for the time. It can be accessed from the NUIG library website.

Yin, H.C., Effect of auxin on Chlorella vulgaris,Wm. G. Kerckhoff Laboratories of the Biological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1937

There are few papers accessible which deal with auxins in general terms and most are not accessible from the NUIG library website due to their age. Most accessible are the modern papers which deal with auxin-induced plant responses on very specific issues and are only worth viewing if you intend to investigate the hormone in some detail.