Layering
Separation and Division
Tissue Culture
Grafting and Cuttings
Misc. Facts
100
What is air layering?
100
What type of seedling would need to be separated?
What is a bulb?
100
How must the tissue culture medium be prepared?
With care and precision
100
the process in which the stem of one plant is made to grow on the roots of another plant.
What is grafting?
100
the reproduction of new plants using only the vegetative parts of the parent plant
What is asexual reproduction?
200
can be accomplished by bending a low growing, flexible stem to the ground
What is simple layering?
200
the process in which these vegetative structures are removed and planted.
What is separation?
200
the practice of growing cells or small pieces of plant tissue on artificial media under sterile conditions
What is tissue culture?
200
What does a leaf-bud cutting involve?
A leaf blade with petiole and bud and a short piece of stem.
200
The first root
What is adventitious root?
300
the parent plant provides the plant-to-be with water and minerals until it produces its own roots.
What is the advantage of layering?
300
the process in which plant roots or an entire plant is cut into sections to make two or more plants from the original plant
What is division?
300
What is tissue culture commonly used for?
Research and commercial production.
300
This type of cutting includes both the stem and leaf portion.
What is stem cutting
300
What is a wound in a plant sealed off by?
What is a callus?
400
What is layering?
A method of asexual reproduction in which roots form on a stem while the stem is still attached to the parent plant
400
Division
400
What determines the success of plant growth?
The quality of a plant tissue culture
400
Entire leaves or portions of leaves are removed from the parent plant.
What is leaf cutting?
400
the potential of a cell to differentiate into any type of cell depending on the special function required
What is totipotency?
500
initiated by placing new plants at an angle in the stool bed
What is trench layering
500
What is the difference between separation and division?
Separation is natural and division must be manually cut apart.
500
What is the solidifying agent that is used in tissue cultures? (it comes from seaweed)
What is agar?
500
This condition must be met for a graft to be successful.
The cambium wood of the scion and the root stock must line up
500
The two major types of root formation
What are endogenous and exogenous roots?