Food Production & the environment

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Producing seedless fruit

Growth hormones can be applied to unpollinated flowers

The hormones will cause the fruit to develop and grow

However, as the flower was not pollinated, no seeds will grow

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Plant tissue culture

Hormones are added to the agar jelly that is used for culturing plants

Some hormones will cause unspecialised cells to grow into specialised shoot cells

Another hormone is used to cause roots to grow

This is an important method for agriculture and for research

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