Jasmonic Acid is released by plants when wounded and helps organize healing and defense.

Jasmonates (JAs) are a group of plant hormones. Image File history File links Jasmonic Acid the Plant Hormone made with the freeware, Chemsketch, version 8. ... Image File history File links Jasmonic Acid the Plant Hormone made with the freeware, Chemsketch, version 8. ... Plant hormones (or plant growth regulators, or PGRs) are internally secreted chemicals in plants that are used for regulating their growth. ...

Location, Characteristics and Occasions for Synthesis Induction

• Desiccation
• Effect of elevated ABA levels
• JA-induced proteins are lacking in the roots, in bleached leaves, and in leaves that are chlorophyll-deficient

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... Chlorophyll is a green photosynthetic pigment found in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. ...

Effects

• Growth inhibition
• Senescence promotion
• Stimulates wound responses
• Germination inhibition
• Tuber formation promotion
• Fruit ripening and fruit abscission promotion
• Pigment formation promotion
• May have a role in plant defense
• In a very low concentrations, grouth promotion

In a botanical sense, germination is the process of emergence of growth from a resting stage. ... Ripening is a process in fruit that causes them to become more edible. ... Abscission (from ab- away from, and scission cutting or severing) is the shedding of a body part. ... In biology, pigment is any material resulting in color in plant or animal cells which is the result of selective absorption. ...