What process if responsible for plants growing towards the light

The plant hormone auxin is responsible for a plant's ability to grow towards the light. Plants have developed a number of strategies to capture the maximum amount of sunlight through their leaves

his type of light-oriented growth is called phototropism," explains Prof. Claus Schwechheimer from the Chair of Plant Systems Biology at the Technische Universität München (TUM). The substance responsible for cell elongation is auxin