NEETBotanyPlant - Growth and Development
What are the applications of the plant hormone depicted in the given diagram?
Options
- AIt promotes bolting (internode elongation just prior to flowering) in beet, cabbages and many plants with rose
- BIt controls xylem differentiation and helps in cell division.
- CIt helps to produce new leaves, chloroplasts in leaves, lateral shoot growth and adventitious shoot formation.
- DAll of these
Correct answer
B. It controls xylem differentiation and helps in cell division.
Step-by-step solution
Auxins also induce parthenocarpy, e.g., in tomatoes. They are widely used as herbicides. 2, 4-D, widely used to kill dicotyledonous weeds, does not affect mature monocotyledonous plants. It is used to prepare weed-free lawns by gardeners. Auxin also controls xylem differentiation and helps in cell division.