--%>
Assignment Help - homework help

Plant hormone remarkable for fruit ripening

What is the plant hormone remarkable for fruit ripening and stimulating flowering? What are the uses and practical inconveniences of which hormone?

E

Expert

Verified

The plant hormone notable for the accelerating and stimulating fruit ripening is the gas ethylene (ethene). By being a gas, ethylene acts not only in plant which produces it however also in neighboring ones.

Some fruit processing industries use ethylene to speed up fruit ripening. On other hand, if the acceleration or intensification of fruit ripening is not desirable care should be taken to prevent mixture of ripe fruits which liberate ethylene with the others.

   Related Questions in Biology

  • Q : Main natural plant hormones Write down

    Write down the main natural plant hormones and what are their particular effects?

    		•
  • Q : Description of capillarity-capillarity

    Give a brief description of capillarity? How this fact is chemically explained? What is the relevance of capillarity for water transport in the plants?

    		•
  • Q : Life duration of red blood cells On an

    On an average what is the life duration of red blood cells? Where are they damaged? Describe the destination of heme groups subsequent to the destruction of hemoglobin molecules?

    		•
  • Q : Describe how the price system

    Describe how the price system eliminates shortage.A shortage refer that quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied. It will lead to upward pressure on price. As price increase, quantity demanded falls and quantity supplied increase.

    		•
  • Q : Type of muscle tissue-relaxes and

    Name the type of muscle tissue which relaxes and contracts the heart chambers? Answer: The myocardium of heart is made up of cardiac striated muscle tissue.

    		•
  • Q : Valve which separates right ventricle

    Name the valve which separates the right ventricle from pulmonary artery? Why is that valve significant?

    		•
  • Q : Dosage-route of administration making

    Briefly explain regarding dosage and route of administration that make a substance antigenic.

    		•
  • Q : State Foreign Government Affairs

    Foreign Government Affairs: "Foreign Policy Analysis" states foreign affairs as "the actions of a government which include its foreign policy and its relations with other countries, diplomacy, international demonstration and the academic study of such

    		•
  • Q : Describe the three major signs of

    Describe the three major signs of diabetes?

    		•
  • Q : Genetic engineering for developing

    How genetic engineering can be used in order to create the bacteria which have the capability of generating the human insulin?

    		•