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The commercial uses of gibberellins are:

  • Gibberellins enhance the production of seedless grapes and also produces uniform bunches with large sized fruits.
  • It also causes lengthening of the peduncle thus forming larger bunch.
  • It also improves the fruit quantities in cherries and enhances the flower bud formation.
  • The gibberellins are treated on the orange to prevent rind senescence, it permit longer storage so that the longer marketing periods can be attained.
  • It helps in fruit setting even under non-ideal weather conditions.
  • The gibberellins induce the production of male flowers on the plants which produces only female flowers. It produces hybrid cucumber seeds.
  • The gibberellins promote the elongation of sugarcane stalks with no change in the sugar concentration thereby having a net yield.
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