COURTESY Plants that propagate by division include this daylily "Lady Neva." Plant propagation simply refers to the reproduction of plants, and occurs by seeds or vegetative means such as cuttings ...

Question: What is it about plants that makes it possible for you to grow them from a cutting rather than having to always start them from seed? I’m planning to expand my garden this season and want to ...

Vegetative reproduction from stems, roots and leaves is common to all plants and results in an identical plant from which the cutting came; it’s a clone. As gardeners, we propagate cuttings for many ...

Two experiments were carried out separately. In experiment 1, IBA dissolved in 50% ethyl alcohol (0, 30, 60 and 90 µg per cutting) was applied to the base of single node leafy stem cuttings of ...

The process of growing many plants from one plant by man-made methods is called artificial propagation of plants. A number of methods of artificial propagation of plants are used in agriculture and ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 94, No. 6 (Jun., 2007), pp. 999-1002 (4 pages) Few studies have quantitatively evaluated the gender specific effects of cultivation on plant growth and reproduction.