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Sexual Reproduction In Flowering Plants

Question
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Importance of day length in flowering of plants was first shown in 

  • Lemna

  • tobacco

  • Cotton 

  • Petunia

Solution

B.

tobacco

The phenomenon of photoperiodism was first discovered by Garner and Allard (1920, a mammoth variety of tobacco could be made to flower only by reducing the light hours with artificial darkening. On the basis of photoperiodic response to flowering, plants (tobacco), long day plant (eg, wheat, hanbane), short - long day plant (eg Campanula), long short day plants, (eg, wild kidney bean) and day neutral plants (eg, cotton).