Exam 37: Plant Signals and Responses to the Environment

When a plant has a hypersensitive response, which production triggers effects such as the expression of PR proteins?

A plant hormone has the same effect in different plant tissues.

What is thigmotropism a growth response to?

Imagine that you own a nursery and you want to reduce the chance that plants you ship will suffer from shipping damage. Which type of plant hormone should you apply to the plants before shipping?

Choose the type of plant chemical or its action most closely associated with the consequence listed below. Each chemical or action may be used more than once. -degrading cell walls of pathogens

Which of the following types of plant hormones trigger(s) plant responses to environmental stresses such as cold snaps, high salinity, and drought?

Which of the following triggers stomatal closure by involving the second messenger inositol triphosphate (IP₃)?

Which type of plant hormone appears to play a major role in gravitropism in roots and shoots?

Which of the following types of plant hormones is apparently synthesized from carotenoid pigments inside plastids?

Which of the following should prevent a grass seedling shoot from bending toward light?

Synthetic compounds similar to which plant hormones are used to prolong the shelf life of vegetables such as lettuces and mushrooms and to keep cut flowers fresh?

Which plant hormones were first discovered in experiments to define the nutrient media required for plant tissue culture?

The most widely accepted hypothesis for how plants detect gravity posits that plants detect gravity the same why animals detect gravity.