Fruit and leaf drop at early stages can be prevented by the application of
1. Cytokinins
2. ethylene
3. auxins
4. gibberellic acid
you are given a tissue with its potential for differentiation in an artificial culture. Which of the following pairs of hormones would you add to the medium to secure shoots as well as roots?
(1) IAA and gibberellin
(2) Auxin and cytokinin
(3) Auxin and abscisic acid
(4) Glbberellin & abscisic acid
Phytochrome is a
(1) flavoprotein
(2) glycoprotein
(3) lipoprotein
(4) chromoprotein
The Avena curvature is used for bioassay of
(1) GA3
(2) IAA
(3) Ethylene
(4) ABA
A few normal seedlings of tomato were kept in a dark room. After a few days they were
found to have become white-coloured like albinos. Which of the following terms will you
use to describe them?
1. Mutated
2. Embolised
3. Etiolated
4. Defoliated
During seed germination its stored food is mobilised by.
1. ethylene
2. cytokinin
3. ABA
4. gibberellin
Phototropic curvature is the result of uneven distribution of.
1. gibberellin
2. phytochrome
3. cytokinins
4. auxin
Photoperiodism was first characterised in :-
1. tobacco
2. potato
3. tomato
4. cotton
Coiling of garden pea tendrils around any support is an example of
1. thigmotaxis
2. thigmonasty
3. thigmotropism
4. thermotaxis
One of the synthetic auxin is
1. NAA
2. IAA
3. GA
4. IBA