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Plant Growth Regulators

This document discusses several plant growth regulators including auxin, gibberellins, cytokinins, ethylene, and abscisic acid. It provides examples of their functions such as auxin promoting cell division and differentiation of xylem, gibberellins promoting seed germination and delaying senescence, cytokinins promoting new leaf formation and lateral shoot growth, ethylene promoting flowering in pineapple and mango as well as fruit set in pineapples, and abscisic acid being involved in photoperiodism.

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Plant Growth Regulators

This document discusses several plant growth regulators including auxin, gibberellins, cytokinins, ethylene, and abscisic acid. It provides examples of their functions such as auxin promoting cell division and differentiation of xylem, gibberellins promoting seed germination and delaying senescence, cytokinins promoting new leaf formation and lateral shoot growth, ethylene promoting flowering in pineapple and mango as well as fruit set in pineapples, and abscisic acid being involved in photoperiodism.

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Plant growth Regulators

Ms. Nidhi Gupta

Kills dicot weeds in grass lawns

Tea tree
unpruned
vs
pruned to
maintain
hedges.

Parthenocarpy in tomato

Promotes Flowering in pineapple

Other functions of Auxin


Auxin promote abscission of old
leaves but prevent fall of young/
premature leaf.
Controls differentiation of xylem and
helps in cell division.

Bakane affected rice seedlings


discovery of GA by E. Kurosawa

Breaks seed dormancy/ bud dormancy


and promotes seed germination

Delays senescence- market period


increase

Other functions of GA
Promotes malting in brewing industry
Increases yield of sugar from
sugarcane.
In conifer juveniles, maturity attained
earlier. So seeds production is early.

Cytokinin (Kinetin/zeatin) corn


kernels/ coconut milk

Cytokinin functions:
Delays leaf
senescence
New leaf formation
Chloroplast
formation
Overcome apical
dominance i.e.
lateral shoot
growth.
Adventitious shoot
formation

Ethylene

Apical hook formation in dicot seed


during germination

Promotes Flowering in pineapple/


mango

Synchronise fruit set in pineapples

Promotes female flowers in


cucumbers

Peanut germination
sprouting

Potato

Cherry tree(Cotton/ Walnut)

Abscission/Thinning of
flowers

Abscisic acid

Photoperiodism

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