VMMC VMMC Medical Solved Paper-2012

  • question_answer
    Induction of flowering by low temnerature treatment is

    A)  vernalization    

    B)  cryobiology

    C)  photoperiodism  

    D)  prumiing

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

     Vernalization is chilling or cold treatment of the young plants or seeds to induce flowering. It is a process of shortening of the juvenile or vegetative phase and fastening the flowering by a process of cold treatment. It was first reported by a Russion worker, Lysenko (1928), while working on cold requiring biennial plants. Common examples of plants requiring vernalization are winter rye, winter wheat, winter barley, pea, Chrysanthemum, etc. Cryobiology is the study of life at low temperature, usually at liquid nitrogen (i.e.,\[-196{{\,}^{o}}C\]) and preservation of organisms in liquid by chemical methods. Photoperiodism   is   the   effect   of photoperaads of daily duration of light hours (and darlS: periods) on the growth and development mainly flowering in plants. It was first studied by Gamer and Allard (1920) on Maryland Mammoth variety of tobacco.


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