The successful rootingof leafy cuttings inivolves three physiologieally distinct processes: initiation of root primordia; development of true roots from these initials; and mainitenance of the cutting as ani excised organ during the rooting. The first of these, where it does niot take place sponitanieously, cani be brought about in many plants by treatment with auxini. The second (outgrow^th of...

Gesneriaceae. Root cuttings were used for various fruit crops, horseradish (Armoracia rusticana P. Gaertn., B Mey. & Scherb.), and others. It was known that when shoots were regenerated adventitiously, as with root cuttings or leaf cuttings, traits (such as variegation), which are associated with chimeras were lost (Bailey, 1896). Humidity control was not nearly as good as today s mist and fog ...

Common purslane is a widely distributed summer annual weed. It can vegetatively reproduce from stem cuttings by forming adventitious roots from the cut end of the stem. Apart from large stem cuttings, it is unclear if purslane cuttings of various plant tissues differ in their ability to asexually reproduce. The objective of the study was to determine the survival and asexual reproductive capaci...

Field experiment was carried out at Ornamental Nursery, Department of Horticulture, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Agricultural University Peshawar, during 2009 to study “the response of plane tree cuttings to different planting dates”. Three types of cuttings (hardwood cuttings, semi-hardwood cuttings, Softwood cuttings) and three dates (6 January, 21 January and 5 February) were studied. The experim...

Propagation potentials of stem cuttings of different physiological ages and genotypes of physic nut (Jatropha curcas L.) were studied at UKM, Malaysia. Stem cuttings of the different physiological ages (hardwood, semi hardwood and soft wood) taken from five selected genotypes of Jatropha were planted in soil media (top soil). Data were collected on the attributes of the stem cuttings and then a...

Vegetative propagation potentials of stem cuttings of different physiological ages of Gongronema latifolia highly valued for its nutritional and medicinal properties in South-eastern Nigeria was studied during two seasons in Nsukka. A single source of stem cuttings of the different physiological ages (hardwood, semihardwood and soft wood) was taken from a clone in a forest in South-eastern Nige...

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