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China Cold Hardiness Zone Map China, Korea, and Japan over U.S. map
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Why Use Seed Propagation over Asexual Reproductive Structures: Seed
♦ Disadvantages: ♦ Seed: matured, ripened ovule located inside a fruit (ovary)
Genetic variability may be not be desirable, not ♦ Contains an embryo, storage reserve tissue and
uniform protective outer coating (seed coat)
May have dormancy issues that must be satisfied Embryo: resulted from union of male and female games
before germination during fertilization, develops into the new plant
Some non-viable seed, no embryo, empty, i.e.
paperbark maple, triploid plants are sterile Cotyledons: “seed leaves” produced during germination,
these fall off and the “true” leaves are formed afterwards
Longer time for reproductive maturity, can take
Monocots: produce only one cotyledon, i.e. grasses
decades before plant flowers/fruits
Dicots: produce two or for gymnosperms up to 15
Takes longer to produce a larger plant than asexual cotyledons, i.e. annuals, perennials, trees, vegetables, etc.
propagation
Germination Process
Germination: radicle (root) emergence from the seed,
then the shoot, which produces a seedling plant
♦ Conditions required for germination:
Seed must be viable with a live embryo, capable of
germination
Seed placed in proper environmental conditions for
germination: available water, proper temperature,
supply of oxygen, sometimes light
Seeds must be pathogen free
Any dormancy present within the seed must be
overcome
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Scarification to Relieve External Dormancy Stratification to Relieve Internal Dormancy
High temperature scarification: place seeds on moist or dry ♦ Stratification: period of moist-chilling or moist-warm
sand at 95°°F (35°°C), temp. OR soak seeds in very hot water, conditions that satisfies dormancy in embryo, seeds must
but not boiling for several minutes be imbibed first!
Time required varies with each species Seed moisture should remain constant during stratification as
Can be used instead of mechanical or acid scarification, but dehydration stops the process, seeds revert to secondary
is quite variable and often does not work on very hard seed dormancy
coats Temperatures similar to outdoor winter temperatures but
Nature: scarification occurs naturally with alternating usually above freezing 1-7°°C (33-45°
°F), use refrigerator
freezing and thawing cycles in soil, gradually breaks down Below freezing temperatures will not work for stratification
the seed coat For tropical and some temperate species, temperatures are
Birds and mammals that eat seed and pass through its above 25° °C (77°°F)
digestive system, stomach acids scarify the seeds and come Some plants have double dormancy and require both moist-
out in their excrement chilling followed by moist-warm stratification
Fire can work as well as microorganisms in soil can break
down seed coat over time
Grafting
What is Asexual Plant Propagation?
♦ Asexual reproduction of plants
Asexual (cloning): get exact same genotype in
each new plant; involved inducing
replacement of missing parts (roots, shoots,
and/or buds)
Cuttings: stem, leaf, leaf-bud, root
Grafting and budding: parts of two plants joined
together
Layering: roots form on stem while still attached to
parent plant
Specialized stems and roots, division (separation)
Micropropagation (tissue culture): sterile culture
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History of Grafting Definitions
Grafting: art of joining two
One of the oldest methods of propagation
plants or plant parts
Dates back 3000 years ago in China, ancient together in a specific
Greece and Rome manner that they unite
Started with olive, fruit, nut trees and grapes and continue to grow as
Now, primary way of propagating clonal one plant, contains
shade and fruit trees, conifers, and hard to several buds
root plants Budding: form of grafting,
scion is reduced in size,
contains only one bud
with small sliver of stem
Definitions Definitions
Scion: short stem piece with two or more Understock, stock, or rootstock: lower
dormant buds, part of graft which part of graft, becomes the root system
develops into the top (shoot) of plant ♦ Can be seedling or clonal material (cutting,
layered, or tissue cultured plant)
♦ Budding: scion reduced to single bud with
♦ May consist of roots, trunk, and scaffold
thin slice of wood branches if done high up in tree
(topworking)
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Budding Budding
Utilizes only one bud with small section of bark
with or without wood
Usually has to be done when bark is slipping
♦ Exception is chip budding
Common means of propagating cultivars onto
roses, fruit and shade trees
Usually young plants budded or smaller
branches of larger plants
Dormant or latent vegetative buds used
♦ Smaller, pointed versus flower buds
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Tissue Culture Facilities and Equipment Cuttings
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Physiological Basis of Root Initiation in Factors influencing formation and survival of
Cuttings: Terms adventitious structures (roots and shoots)
♦ Plant genotype: life cycle, habitat, ecology
♦ Adventitious: appearing in an unusual ♦ Polarity
place such as a root developing from a ♦ Phase state of stock plant: adult vs. juvenile
shoot or shoot developing from a root ♦ Type of wood selected for cuttings: current or past season growth,
terminal or lateral, presence of leaves or buds on cuttings,
flowering vs. vegetative stems
♦ Time of year cuttings taken: hardwood, softwood, semi-hardwood
♦ Etiolation, blanching or banding
♦ Girdling
♦ Wounding
♦ Physiological condition of stock plant: water stress, pests,
carbohydrate status, mineral nutrition
♦ Hormones, rooting co-factors and rooting inhibitors
♦ Treatment of cuttings after removal from stock plant
♦ Environmental conditions during rooting: water, temp., light, media
♦ Survival of cuttings after rooting: hardening off