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Review
. 2022 Jun 8:35:e00748.
doi: 10.1016/j.btre.2022.e00748. eCollection 2022 Sep.

The bioactive potential of phytohormones: A review

Arpan Mukherjee  1 , Anand Kumar Gaurav  1 , Saurabh Singh  1 , Shweta Yadav  1 , Shiuly Bhowmick  1 , Saman Abeysinghe  2 , Jay Prakash Verma  1
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Review

The bioactive potential of phytohormones: A review

Arpan Mukherjee et al. Biotechnol Rep (Amst). .

Abstract

Plant hormones play an important role in growth, defence and plants productivity and there are several studies on their effects on plants. However, their role in humans and animals is limitedly studied. Recent studies suggest that plant hormone also works in mammalian systems, and have the potential to reduce human diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and also improve cell growth. Plant hormones such as indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) works as an antitumor, anti-cancer agent, gibberellins help in apoptosis, abscisic acid (ABA) as antidepressant compounds and regulation of glucose homeostasis whereas cytokinin works as an anti-ageing compound. The main aim of this review is to explore and correlate the relation of plant hormones and their important roles in animals, microbes and plants, and their interrelationships, emphasizing mainly human health. The most important and well-known plant hormones e.g., IAA, gibberellins, ABA, cytokinin and ethylene have been selected in this review to explore their effects on humans and animals.

Keywords: Cell growth regulation; Disease; Human health; Microbes; Plant hormones.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors are aware about this communication. This is original research manuscript. There is no conflict of interest between each author and others. There is no financial conflict of interest. Funding agency properly acknowledged in manuscript.

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Plant hormones function for plant and human health to interlink each other.
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Plant hormones and its application for modulation the biochemical and functional properties of human body.
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Diagrammatic representation of plant hormones extraction and purification from plant and microbes.
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