Biological Principles
The most widely applied method of vegetative propagation using a piece of leaf or stem.
What is a cutting?
Undifferentiated cells that from plant tissue that is wounded
What is callous tissue?
Plants kept specifically used for propagation.
What are stock plants?
Waxy substance that seals a wound on plants.
What is suberin?
Method of of starting new plants from existing material.
What is vegetative propagation?
The process of roots forming from any plant part other than the roots.
What is adventitious root formation?
Roots that develop while still attached to the parent plant.
What are preformed roots?
Portion of the stem used to propagate a new plant.
What is a stem cutting?
Type of propagation that takes material (cuttings) from a parent or stock plant.
What is asexual propagation?
Type of plant growth hormone that encourages bud and adventitious root formation.
What is Cytokinins?
Best type of cuttings for deciduous woody species.
What is a hardwood cutting?
Minimum number of nodes to include in a hardwood cutting, especially of fruit trees.
What are two nodes?
Best time to take a cutting because the plant is fully _______ (stem is filled with substantial water pressure).
What is the morning? Missing word is turgidity.
Trees or shrubs that lose their leaves annually are called________________.
What is deciduous?
Plants that are kept just for propagation.
What is a stock plant?
Plant growth regulator that is used for hard to propagate plants that promotes adventitious root formation.
What are auxins?
Roots that develop after a cutting is made. These roots are directly related to teh wound that was made in the cutting.
What are wound-induced roots?
This type of cutting roots more easily than the hardwood cuttings.
What are softwood cuttings?
Stem cuttings are classified by a plant's type of _________.
What is stem tissue?
Period of time for plants to adjust to changes from high humidity levels.
What is acclimatization?
Chemicals that are naturally occurring in plants that regulate plant growth and other functions.
What are phytohormones?
Cuttings taken from wood that has stopped actively growing and is dormant.
What is a hardwood cutting?
For broadleaf evergreen shrubs, cuttings are taken from this part of the plant.
What is new shoots after a burst of growth?
For fruit trees, long hardwood cuttings allow for this.
What are bud grafts?
Leaves that have fallen off a plant or tree have _______>
What is abscised?