Commercial use of plant hormones
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- Created on: 08-05-14 18:02
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- Commercial use of plant hormones
- Selective weedkillers
- Weedkillers kill broad leaved plants by disrupting their normal growth pattern whilst leaving the narrow leaved plants untouched.
- Growing cutting from rooting powder
- Adding rooting powder (containing a plant hormone) to plant cuttings will make them produce roots rapidly and start growing as new plants.
- This enables farmers to produce clones of good plants very quickly.
- Adding rooting powder (containing a plant hormone) to plant cuttings will make them produce roots rapidly and start growing as new plants.
- Controlling the ripening of fruit
- Ripening hormones can be added to unripe fruit during transportation (firmer and less easily damaged) so they can be just ripe before they reach the supermarket shelves.
- Producing seedless fruit
- If growth hormones are applied to unpollinated flowers of plants, the fruit will grow but the seeds won't.
- Selective weedkillers
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