The people behind the papers - Alon Israeli and Naomi Ori

Auxin, a plant hormone, is crucial for organ initiation and differential growth stages. Yet the underlying molecular pathways integrating the auxin signalling into these two continuous stages of organ formation remain unclear. In a new study, Alon Israeli, Naomi Ori and colleagues uncover an unexpected dual interaction between auxin and gibberellin. To learn more about this work and the people behind it, we talked to first author Alon Israeli and corresponding author Naomi Ori, Professor of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture at The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Israel.