Juvenility and Production of Fast-rooting Cuttings from Blueberry Shoot Cultures1
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- 1 May 1981
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Horticultural Science in Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science
- Vol. 106 (3) , 396-398
- https://doi.org/10.21273/jashs.106.3.396
Abstract
Shoots from tissue culture of 2 rabbiteye blueberry (V. ashei Reade) cultivars had smaller leaves, thinner stems, shorter internodes, and rooted faster than shoots from field-grown plants of the same cultivars. Rooting of cuttings taken directly from tissue culture or from 3-month-old tissue culture-derived plants averaged 95% for ‘Beckyblue’ and 96% for ‘Bluebelle’ after 19 days compared to 7% for ‘Beckyblue’ and 0% for ‘Bluebelle’ for softwood cuttings from field-grown plants. At 41 days, 100% of the cuttings taken from tissue culture or from tissue culture-derived plants had roots as compared to 54% for cuttings from field-grown plants.Keywords
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