NEETBotanyPlant - Growth and Development
Read the following statements and choose the following option: 1. The Bakanae disease was caused by Gibberella fujikuroi 2. H.H cousins confirmed the release of ethylene from ripened oranges 3. Three researches coordinated and reported the purification and chemical characterisation of three different kinds of inhibitors: inhibitor-B, abscission II and dormin. 4. F. Skoog and his co-workers observed that from the inte
Options
- AOnly 5 is incorrect
- BBoth 1 and 3 is incorrect
- COnly 1 is correct
- DBoth 1 and 2 is correct
Correct answer
C. Only 1 is correct
Step-by-step solution
The ‘bakanae’ (foolish seedling) disease of rice seedlings, was caused by a fungal pathogen Gibberella fujikuroi. H.H. Cousins (1910) confirmed the release of a volatile substance from ripened oranges that hastened the ripening of stored unripened bananas. Later this volatile substance was identified as ethylene, a gaseous PGR.