Another Major Revision to Speculations on Plant Hormones

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I was reading the Wikipedia articles on Jasmonate, and they do seem to
fit the role I had made for Auxin, being the indicator of excess
sugar. This is shown by Jasmonic Acid being involved in tuber
formation and de-chlorophylling leaves. Presumably both these events
occur because of an excess of sugar. So if this is true, perhaps the
eight hormone scheme described previously needs rearranging again.

So here's the break down:
Jasmonic Acid - excess sugar indicator.
Gibberellin - sugar deficiency indicator.

Salicylic Acid - excess water indicator.
Abscic Acid - water deficiency indicator.

Cytokinin - excess mineral indicator.
Brassinosteroid - mineral deficiency indicator.

Auxin - excess Oxygen (and carbon dioxide?) indicator.
Ethylene - anoxia, oxygen (and carbon dioxide deficiency?) indicator.

One of the problems with this scheme is the Wikipedia Article on
Brassinosteroid indicates that Brassinosteroid is transported
acropetally. However, we should expect instead for it to be
transported from shoot apex to root. If I understand what acropetally
means, it is traveling in the wrong direction, because mineral
deficiency presumably develops in the region furthest from the source
of minerals, which would be the apex leaves.

Another problem seems apparent that salicylic and jasmonic acid are
not needed to produce a growing callus in tissue culture as one might
expect. Neither does it seem to me seem to be involved in crown gall
formation as we would anticipate if these hormones were crucial
indicator "green lights" for the plant's estimation of whether
resources were correct for cell division. Admittedly, my knowledge of
the literature is 20 years old and only updated by Wikipedia...not a
very expert position to be in to judge this issue.