1. What roles do hormones play in plant development? 2. Should commercial fruit farmers be allowed to use ethylene to accelerate the ripening of fruit for the market? Why or why not?
3. Do you believe that ethylene gas is essential to plant’s ability to produce fruit, seeds, and reproduce? Why or why not?

Plant hormones playa crucial role in controlling the way in which plants grow and develop. While metabolism provides the power and building blocks for plant life it is the hormones that regulate the speed of growth of the individual parts and integrate these parts to produce the form that we recognize as a plant

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