Ethylene Plant Hormone
Both an inhibitor and a growth promoter, it works. takes the form of gas. It is created in tissues going through senescence and in ripening fruits. It is one of the most commonly utilised hormones in agriculture and controls a number of physiological processes.
Functions Ethylene Plant Hormone:
(i) It accelerates fruit ripening.
(ii) It accelerates fruit ripening. the epinasty of leaves.
(iii) Breaks seed and bud dormancy.
(iv) stimulates the rapid elongation of internodes and petioles. (v) promotes leaves and flowers to senesce and die.
(vi) causes the production of root hair and root growth, increasing the absorption surface.
(vii) increases the female hormone in monoecious plants.
(viii) Formation of the apical hook in dicot seedlings.