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...

We compared responses of cuttings and seedlings of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. subsp. globulus to water stress in a 9-week greenhouse experiment. Optimal water availability was achieved by watering pots daily to field capacity, and two water stress treatments were imposed by reducing watering frequency to every 6 or 14 days. Within each treatment, height growth rates of cuttings and seedlings w...

Long, character-marked furniture cuttings are easily obtained when low-grade (2A and 2B Common) yellowpoplar lumber is first ripped into strips and then crosscut to remove objectionable defects. Overall yields of character-marked material using this procedure were 78 % from 1 Common and 2A Common and 70% from 2B Common yellow-poplar lumber. Furthermore, 82% of the 1 Common cuttings, 61% of the ...

The present study explores the potential of exogenous auxins in the development of adventitious shoots and roots from shoot cuttings of Couroupita guianensis (Nagalingam), a threatened tree. Experiments were conducted to assess the effect of various concentrations of auxins on shoot and root morphological traits of stem cuttings in the greenhouse. Amongst the auxins tested, significant effects ...

Commercial vegetative propagation of oricultural crops requires the segregation of plant cuttings into categories based on size. The cuttings however must be graded when they are planted ("stuck"), at which time the grade of a cutting is not easy to determine. This paper reports on a system that learns to classify cuttings from being shown examples of images of cuttings that have been graded by...

Commercial vegetative propagation of floricultural crops requires the segregation of plant cuttings into categories based on size. The cuttings however must be graded when they are planted (" stuck "), at which time the grade of a cutting is not easy to determine. This report describes a system that learns to classify cuttings from being shown examples of images of cuttings that have been grade...

Polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activity was investigated during rooting in cuttings from three different grape cultivars (Vitis vinifera L. cvs. Muscat, Cardinal and Perlelte), and the enzyme activity and rooting ability were compared. Rooting was observed on the Muscat and Perlelte cuttings, but not on the Cardinal cuttings. PPO activity started to increase in the early stage of the experiment, and ...