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Arresting Plant Maturation To Maintain High Propagation Success With American Sycamore Cuttings

Loss of rooting potential with maturation in sycamore limits clonal propagation of selected clones by conventional cuttings. By the time the clones can be identified in progeny tests, they have already lost much of their juvenility (and thus the rooting ability of their cuttings has declined). Data from four studies conducted during 1991-95 are presented to show how serial propagation can arrest the maturation process, thereby maintaining high propagation success until progeny tests are completed. Three-month survival and sprout growth in an on-going field trial of cuttings from different serial stages of propagation of the same clones are given.


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Author(s): Samuel B. Land, Jr.

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1995