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Explain the cause of shoots of the plant bending towards light?

Class 10CBSEBiologyChapter: Control and Coordination
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Stems are positively phototropic and bend towards the direction of light. The movement is due to occurrence of more auxin on the darker side and lesser auxin on the illuminated side. As a result, there is more growth on the darker side which causes the stem to bend towards light.
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