Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
For many lesser-known tropical fruit trees, seed is used for propagation
because they do not have a high commercial value and little information exists
about asexual propagation. The consequence is that fruits are very variable
in quality and are not easily marketed. If the quality of these fruit is to be
improved, methods to propagate them vegetatively are needed.
Asexual or vegetative propagation
When a new plant is regenerated or propagated from a piece or part of a
mother plant, it is called clonal or vegetative propagation. Plants can be
vegetatively propagated using many dif erent tissues from roots (breadfruit)
(Fig. 4.1a), stem cuttings (guava), apices (banana) and buds (citrus) (Table
4.1).
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Fig. 4.1. Asexual propagation includes the use of root cuttings for breadfruit (a),
tissue culture (b), budding (c) and the use of suckers for pineapple (d).
 
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