FAKULTI PERTANIAN LESTARI
FISIOLOGI TUMBUHAN (RH10203)
NAMA : MUHAMMAD HAZIM BIN SAPRI
NOMBOR MATRIK : BR20110015
NAMA & KOD PROGRAM : PENGELUARAN TANAMAN (UH6621001)
TUGASAN : AMALI (KACANG HIJAU)
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TITLE:
Influence of Light on The Growth of Plants.
INTRODUCTION:
Plants need three basic things to live which sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Through a
process called photosynthesis, the plants use energy from the sun to convert carbon dioxide,
soil nutrients and water into its food. The sun also acts as critical role in plants growth that
without the sun, plants would not get the necessary food needed to grow, reproduce, and
survive. Mung beans has been used because it easy to care and has a fast life cycle. So, it’s
perfect because the experiment needs to get an instant result.
OBJECTIVE:
To determine the effect of light on the growth of plants.
MATERIALS:
Mung beans, tissue paper, petri dish, water.
METHODS:
For the first step, the mung beans have been soaked in a beaker of water for overnight.
Secondly, 10 mung beans placed into the petri dish that covered by wet tissue and leave them
in the dark. After that, with the similar process, the new petri dish with similar amount of mung
beans was placed in the light. The differences between the two-petri dish were observed after
2 or 3 weeks after sown.
RESULTS:
WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3
LIGHT 2.00 4.00 5.80
ENVIRONMENT
(cm)
DARK 4.00 6.00 7.00
ENVIRONMENT
(cm)
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WEEK 1 (LIGHT) WEEK 1 (DARK)
WEEK 2 (LIGHT) WEEK 2 (DARK)
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DISCUSSION
Based on the experiment that was conducted, we can find out that difference in sunlight density
give different result of the plant growth. As we can see, based on their length, the mung beans
that in the dark is longer than the mung beans that in the light condition. It causes by the auxin
hormone which is growth hormone in mung beans plants has been disrupted by the sunlight so
that the auxin hormone fails on its function and gives the impact of high inhibition of mung
beans plants. While mung beans plants in a dark place that cannot approach by sunlight causing
auxin hormone to function at its maximum rate and cause dark mung beans plants to have
higher stems compared to light mung beans.
Based on the experiment that was conducted, we can find out that difference in sunlight density
give different result of the plant growth. As we can see, based on their length, the mung beans
that in the dark is longer than the mung beans that in the light condition. It causes by the auxin
hormone which is growth hormone in mung beans plants has been disrupted by the sunlight so
that the auxin hormone fails on its function and gives the impact of high inhibition of mung
beans plants. While mung beans plants in a dark place that cannot approach by sunlight causing
auxin hormone to function at its maximum rate and cause dark mung beans plants to have
higher stems compared to light mung beans.
CONCLUSION
The objective was achieved, where the light was affecting on plant growth. The difference
between growth on dark and light based on the active and inactive pigments on mung beans
leaves make it differ in freshness. For the length of the mung beans, the auxin hormone which
is more effective on dark because the hormone can be destroy by the sunlight in light makes
the dark mung beans stem longer than light mung beans.
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