Commercial use of plant hormones
- Created by: Remya Salimkumar
- Created on: 13-06-15 21:18
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- COMMERCIAL USE OF PLANT HORMONES
- AUXIN
- rooting powder for cuttings
- to encourage root growth
- Prevents leaf and fruit drop
- Seedless fruits
- promotes ovule growth in unpollinated flowers
- Promotes flowering
- Herbicide/ weedkiller
- promotes excessive shoot growth so that the plant cannot support itself
- rooting powder for cuttings
- ETHENE
- speeds up fruit ripening
- promotes fruit drop
- reduces self-pollination by promoting female sex expression in cucumbers
- increases yield
- promoting lateral growth
- GIBBERELLIN
- Fruit production
- delay senescence
- elongate apples to improve shape
- cause grape stalks to elongate so that they are less compact and bigger
- Brewing
- speeds up amylase production to breakdown starch to maltose
- Sugar production
- increases sugar yield by elongating internodes where sugar is stored
- Plant breeding
- induces seed formation
- Fruit production
- CYTOKININS
- delay leaf senescence
- reduce yellowing of lettuce
- help mass produce plants
- delay leaf senescence
- AUXIN
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