MODERN PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

2. Nutrients like vitamin A and C that plants provide for human diets.
4. Storage method that controls oxygen and CO₂ to keep produce fresh.
10. The exchange of gases between plants and their environment.
12. Technique used to maintain and regenerate whole plants from cells in labs.
13. Process by which plants produce food from sunlight.
14. A physiological response that allows plants to survive drought or salinity.
17. Process of conserving the variety of living species.
18. Genetic __________ involves altering plant DNA for desirable traits.

1. Science that studies how plants function.
3. A toxin that can contaminate maize, controlled through resistant varieties.
5. Technique used to produce multiple identical plants from small tissue samples.
6. Movement of water vapor through plant leaves.
7. Pigment essential for capturing light energy during photosynthesis.
8. The main organ where photosynthesis occurs.
9. Growing plants without soil, using nutrient solutions.
11. Protective structure at the root tip.
15. Method of increasing crop yield through physiological understanding.
16. The basic unit of heredity targeted in genetic engineering.