Plant Hormones and Tropisms
A mind map concerning Plant hormones, tropisms, and their effect on the plant
- Created by: dwdwdan
- Created on: 10-10-17 17:15
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- Plant Hormones
- Auxin
- Controls Growth
- Produced in tip of stem
- Response to tropisms
- Stimulates Cell elongation
- Lengthening of cells
- In Stem
- Inhibits growth in root
- Commercial uses
- Auxin
- Weed Killer
- Kills Broad-leaved weeds
- Disrupts natural growth pattern
- Leaves grass and crops untouched
- Root Powder
- Allows cutting to grow
- Produce Roots Rapidly
- Creates clones
- Tissue Culture
- creates clones from few cells
- Auxins added to growth medium
- Weed Killer
- Gibberellin
- Controls Dormancy
- Seeds don't germinate until been through certain conditions
- Alters Dormancy
- All seeds in batch germinate at once
- Induced flowering
- Some plants require certain conditions to flower
- Gibberellin bypasses conditions
- Bigger Flowers
- Growing Larger Fruit
- Seedless fruit doesn't grow as large
- Giberellins make them grow larger
- To size of normal varieties
- Controls Dormancy
- Ethene
- Speeds up Ripening
- Gas
- Produced by aging parts of plant
- Fruit can be picked when unripe
- Fruit Firmer
- Fruit less easily damaged
- Fruit Ripened on way to shop
- Fruit perfectly ripened when gets to shop
- Can also delay ripening by blocking ethenes effect
- Auxin
- Auxin
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