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BotanyPlant Growth and DevelopmentPlant Growth RegulatorsEasy2 minPYQ_2020
BotanyEasysingle choice
Pruning of plants promotes branching because the axillary buds get sensitized to:
Options:
Answer:
C
Solution:
Pruning causes the cutting of plant apex which lowers the amount of auxin and relatively an increase in cytokinin content. In the plant, cytokinin promotes the growth of axillary buds causing branching.
Cytokinins are essential to plant hormones that control cell division, shoot meristem initiation, leaf and root differentiation, senescence.
Stream:NTA_ABHYAS_NEETSubject:BotanyTopic:Plant Growth and DevelopmentSubtopic:Plant Growth Regulators
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