Pieces of vegetative material obtained from any of the primary plant organs- stems, leaves, or roots.
What are cuttings?
100
The bottom part of the graft that is in contact with the soil and is not allowed to develop shoots.
What is the rootstock?
100
This asexual plant propagation method of vegetative prorogation in which roots are generated on a limb before the limb is severed for planting.
What is layering?
100
Underground structures are divided by breaking them apart along the natural lines between segments.
What is separation?
100
Production of new plants from single cell,pieces of tissue, and of small pieces of vegetative material.
What is (micro propagation) tissue culture?
200
This cutting type involves the use of a piece of a leaf or an entire leaf to produce a new plant.
What is a leaf cutting?
200
The plant part that is the top part of the graft and grows to become the desired shoot.
What is scion?
200
Strawberries have a natural layering ability when it produces this structure
What is a runner (or stolon)?
200
Separation of bulblets results in these.
What are bulbs?
200
Tissue used in tissue culture first changes into a mass of undifferentiated cells called ???
What is callus?
300
Dracaena, Ficus, Monstera, Vitis, Camellia, Clematis, Lonicera, Hypericum, and Hedera plants are propagated with this cutting type.
What is a leaf-bud cutting?
300
A graft is considered successful when these two types of tissue align correctly and heal making for uninterrupted vascular transport.
What are the xylem and phloem?
300
In this type of layering, the stem is girdled and then soil (or peat moss) is wrapped around the stem and covered with a plastic sheet until roots form. The stem is then severed from the main plant.
What is air layering?
300
Underground stems are cut into pieces and replanted.
What is division?
300
This type of asexual reproduction is when seeds are produced without fertilization.
What is apomixis?
400
The section of the stem that contains the terminal bud.
What is stem-tip cutting?
400
This type of substance may be applied over the surface of the grafting area to prevent desiccation.
What is grafting wax?
400
All of the following are examples of natural layering except one. Tip layering, propagation by runners, mound layering, and propagation by suckers.
What is mound layering?
400
Enlarged, fleshy underground stem.
What are stem tubers?
400
Living vegetative plant material extracted for use in tissue culture.
What is explant material?
500
This type of hormone is often used by growers to aid in the rooting of all types of cuttings.
What is IBA?
500
This type of grafting requires both plants are rooted until the graft union heels.
What is approach grafting?
500
Underground stems that grow horizontally.
What are rhizomes?
500
Involves the development of an already existing shoot meristem and, subsequently, the regeneration of adventitious roots from the developed shoots.