NTA Abhyas NEET2020BotanyPlant - Growth and DevelopmentPractice
Plants which require the exposure to light for a period exceeding a well defined critical duration for flowering are called:
Options
- AShort day plants
- BLong-day plants
- CDay-neutral plants
- DBoth (A) and (B)
Correct answer
B. Long-day plants
Step-by-step solution
Plants require periodic exposure to light for flowering. Some plants need exposure for a period more than a well defined critical duration known as long-day plants and the other short-day plants are the ones which need exposure to light less than the well defined critical duration. Different plants have different critical duration. The day-neutral plants are the plants which show no correlation between exposure to the light duration and their flowering response.