What are plant growth regulators?

• Plant growth regulators, also known as plant exogenous hormones, are synthetic substances that are similar to natural plant hormones
• They are used to regulate the growth of plants and are important measures to ensure agricultural production
• Phyto hormones is a organic substances produced naturally in plants controlling growth and other functions at a site remote from its place of production and active in minute amounts
• Phyto harmones are growth regulators but all growth regulators are not phyto harmones
• Plant growth regulators will not be hazardous to human health if they are used in accordance with good agricultural practice
• However, if they are misused, crops will grow excessively fast, resulting in ripening on the fruit surface with the core remaining raw, which will adversely affect the palatability and quality of fruits