Abstract, FFTC Flooding and soil-borne diseases cause severe yield losses in tomato during the hot and wet summer months in the lowland tropics. The high market price during the summer period motivates farmers to adopt additional cultural practices to overcome production constraints, such as...
Plants have two ways of reproduction, sexual by means of seeds, and asexually or vegetatively by means of vegetative tissue. Both ways occur in living plants in nature. In nature, some plants reproduce mainly vegetatively while others rely almost totally on sexual reproduction. For the plant...
1990 videos with Dr. Carl Campbell ECHO Tropical Fruits Video Series - Introduction To Tropical Fruit (Part 1 of 6) ECHO Tropical Fruits Video Series -Grafting Tropical Fruit Trees & Avocados (Part 2 of 6) ECHO Tropical Fruits Video Series - (Part 3 of 6) Guava, Pineapple, Macadamia,Mamey...
Access Agriculture Training Video With grafting, a young shoot from a preferred mango variety is attached to a seedling. The seedling will develop the root and base of the tree. This is called the rootstock. The young shoot that is grafted onto the rootstock is called the scion. This will develop...
Abstract -Journal of Experimental Botany While much recent science has focused on understanding and exploiting root traits as new opportunities for crop improvement, the use of rootstocks has enhanced productivity of woody perennial crops for centuries. Grafting of vegetable crops has developed...
01-01-2001 This booklet explains techniques commonly used (grafting, budding, layering, cuttings) to propagate fruit plants, with special emphasis on Florida fruits.
01-01-1979 Store Publishing Bulletin A-35 Types of grafting are discussed along with ten essentials of successful grafting and budding, and the ten most-asked questions about grafting. 32 pages, illustrated 2 copies
The Grafter's Handbook has been long established as the encyclopedia of plant propagation by grafting. Everything for the amateur, the student and the professional horticulturist wants to know about grafting in a concise, clearly written and straightforward style. 3 Copies