Plant Cell

  • The Basics of Plant Growth; Part 1 Hormones
    How Hormones Control Plant Growth HORMONES CONTROL THE LIFE AND DEATH OF YOUR PLANTS Five Hormones Determine Your Plant’s Success or Failure. Five plant hormones have been identified as being responsible for the development of the plant throughout its life. Each of them has complicated functions. The relationship between their activities changes with the plant's stage of development. Put simply, they are: a) Auxins which develop in leaf buds and leaves. b) Gibberellins which develop in shoot Read More...
  • Lean Cell Systems And Plant Flow-Rapid Production With Lower Costs
    As manufacturers, we are always looking for ways to make things run faster, cheaper, and simpler. Often, the approach we take involves reassessing the production elements within the plant that impede the system flow. In such an analysis we take stock in the operation as a whole in search for efficiencies in the parts. In short, to enhance productivity while responding quickly to rapidly changing customer demands, we try to take full advantage of the resources available to our plant. In doing so, Read More...
  • Do Cars and Cell Phones Mix
    Cell phones have greatly increased the usefulness of "drive time," and talking on a cell phone can certainly make a car trip go by faster. But we've all heard the horror stories about accidents caused by drivers who were talking on their cell phones, and many people have had close calls that they could see were caused by someone paying more attention to their conversation than their driving. Some states have made laws against using cell phones when driving and other states and municipalities le Read More...
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