Which is/are the disadvantage/(s) of using IAA in plant cell culture media? Conjugated to inactive form by plant cells It is unstable in solution Gets easily oxidized All of these TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
What are the macronutrients used in plant cell culture medium? N, P, K, Ca, Cl N, P, K, S, Na N, P, Ca, Na, Cl N, P, K, S, Ca TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
What is 'nurse' or conditioned medium? Both (a) and (b) It is the media full of growth factors used for the growth of cells It is the medium added to nurse the callus culture It is the liquid medium removed from the suspension of fast growing cells TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Which of the following growth regulator cause plant cells to grow? Gibberellins Brassinosteroids Cytokinins Auxins TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Which of the following is not true about nurse or conditioned medium? It is liquid removed from the suspension of fast growing cells it is removed aseptically from the culture and is autoclaved before use It is used in the culture of regenerating protoplast It contains uncharacterized growth factor released by growing cells TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
To maintain the pH of the culture both (a) and (b) ammonium salts are used synthetic buffers such as Tris, MES or HEPS are used organic acid such as citric, fumaric, malic and succinic acid is used TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Which of the following is not an auxin? Naphthalenacetic acid (NAA) Indole butyric acid zeatin Indole acetic acid (IAA) TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Neutralized activated charcoal is occasionally added to young regenerating cultures to maintain the pH of the medium remove toxic phenolics produced by the stressed plant cell help to remove plants growth regulators introduced at an earlier stage both (a) and (b) TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Which of the following growth regulator promote cell division? Brassinosteroids Gibberellins Cytokinins Auxins TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Silver thiosulphate is added to culture medium as it helps to All of these remove toxic phenolics from plant cells prevent the gaseous plant hormone, ethylene dioxide from accumulating to detrimental condition. maintain the pH TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?