About Lesson
Ethylene
- The only ripening hormone.
- Highly useful in inducing fruit ripening
- Auxins increase ethylene level in plants and auxin actions are attributed through ethylene such as increased percentage of female flowers, apical bud dominance and leaf epinasty
Physiological effects of ethylene
- Stimulation of ripening of fleshy fruits
- Abscission of leaves
- Inhibition of stem elongation
- Stimulation of radial swelling of stems
- Inhibition of root growth
- Stimulation of flowering
- Stimulation of leaf epinasty