Movement is to areas where carbohydrates are being utilized for growth in the short tips and buds or for storage in stem and root tissue.
Movement can also occur with mineral nutrients and water upward in the xylem.
Mimic natural plant auxins causing abnormal growth and disruption of the transport tissue. Twisted, malformed leaves and stems, callus-like growth on young woody stems. The bean plant on the left had been treated with a low concentration of 2,4-D ten days earlier. Note the twisted leaf petioles and cupped leaves. Many broadleaf plants show severe leaf malformation when exposed to this group of herbicides.