noun
- a plant hormone that promotes dormancy and stress responses in plants; abscisic acid.
Usage: technical; botany; also called abscisic acid or ABA
Examples
- Dormin is a key hormone that helps plants survive drought conditions.
- The concentration of dormin increases when a plant experiences water stress.
- Scientists study dormin to understand how plants regulate their growth and dormancy.
- Dormin plays an important role in seed germination and plant development.