Question
The discovery of gibberellins is related with one of the following
blast disease of rice
rust disease of wheat
bakane disease of rice
early blight disease of potato
Solution
C.
bakane disease of rice
Kurosawa, a Japanese botanist, discovered gibberellin while investigating the rice foolish seedling disease in which spindly seedlings are formed due to GA like compounds produced by the fungus ( Gibberella fujikuroi) infecting the plant.( see text for more information).
