This is another part of my science fair paper that is almost due.Please help!!!
What is in aspirin that helps flowers live longer?
Asparin contains a organic compound known as salicylic acid.
Salicylic acid (SA) is a phytohormone; and a phenol, ubiquitous in plants generating a significant impact on plant growth and development, photosynthesis, transpiration, ion uptake and transport and also induces specific changes in leaf anatomy and chloroplast structure. SA is recognized as an endogenous signal, mediating in plant defense, against pathogens. It plays a role in the resistance of pathogens by inducing the production of 'pathogenesis-related proteins'. It is involved in the systemic acquired resistance [SAR] in which a pathogenic attack on older leaves causes the development of resistance in younger leaves, though whether SA is the transmitted signal is debatable. SA is the calorigenic substance that causes thermogenesis in Arum flowers.
Reply:Aspirin inhibits the cogging of chloroplasts and particulated matter inside the vessels of phloema, thus, keeping the capillaries of the plant, patent for a longer period of time (such as it happens when it keeps human platelets from clogging in the capillaries of the human body)------
Reply:Aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid. Being an organic acid, it inhibits the growth of bacteria. Without bacteria clogging up the xylem, cut flowers and Christmas trees last longer.
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