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A farmer grows cucumber plants in his field .He wants to increase the number of female flowers in them. Which plant growth regulator can be applied to achieve this?

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Ethylene is also responsibel to play a major roll in determinging the sex of monoecious flowers and is associted with the promotions of femaleness in pl,ants thus the farmer must sprary ethylene hormone on this cucumber crop to produce femal flowers and to increase the yield (number of ruieta produced ).
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