Resources Tagged: Propagation

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  1. The Propagation of Tropical Fruit Trees

    Key Resource 1976-09-01 Amazon.com Description This book is divided into 2 parts. Part I, by R.J. Garner, deals with the establishment and equipment of the nursery, the pots and other containers, the various methods of propagation and with the transplanting of the young plants. This part is well illustrated. Part II is...
    Horticulture Plant Propagation Botany Propagation

  2. Agricultural and Horticultural Seeds: FAO

    Key Resource 1961-06-01 In this study by FAO of the UN an attempt has been made to provide a world-wide review of some aspects of the production, control and distribution of seeds.
    Horticulture Plant Propagation Botany Propagation

  3. Traditional Techniques to Improve Plant Performance

    2005-10-01 An article by Francis Hallé in Nature and Resources, Volume 32, Number 3, 1996, explains several techniques used to “improve, select, propagate or preserve plant growth.” These techniques are called “phytopractices.” Most of them are inexpensive and simple to use but labor-intensive. The...
    Propagation Fruit Tree Crops Cassava Banana

  4. TN #3 Citrus Propagation & Rootstocks

    1983-01-01 In response to various questions from overseas, we have tracked down some answers that are of general interest to our readers. These have been published in past issues of ECHO Development Notes. This technical note reprints those in their entirety. It also adds a couple of helpful tables that...
    Citrus Propagation Rootstock

  5. Raising Seedlings of Tropical Trees (Tropical Trees: Propagation and Planting Manuals)

    2003-02-01 This Manual is the second in a series of readable, well illustrated handbooks about propagating and planting tropical trees.The five Manuals have been designed to provide clear and concise information on how to select, grow, plant and care for tropical trees, in both moist and drier parts of the...
    Propagation Tropical Trees

  6. FAO Field Manual on Vegetative Propagation (1993)

    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...
    Propagation Plant Propagation

  7. Plant Propagation

    FAO Field Manual : 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....
    Propagation Plant Propagation

  8. ECHO Tropical Fruits Video Series - Grafting Tropical Fruit Trees & Avocados

    2016-03-17 1990 video of grafting techniques
    Grafting Plant Propagation Propagation Fruit Trees

  9. Growth physiology, propagation, and replacing the tropical forests

    Abstract - Botanical Journal of Scotland Three apparently disparate topics are brought together to focus on ways in which science and even technology have often been insulated from pressing human needs. A notable example is the 20th Century's down-grading of the value of tropical trees in...
    Plant Propagation Propagation Agroforestry

  10. Low-Technology Techniques For The Vegetative Propagation Of Tropical Trees

    Abstract - Pennsylvania State University Stem cuttings of five tree species from dry and semi-arid woodlands (Acacia torti/is, Prosopis juliflora, Terminalia spinosa, Terminalia brownii and Albizia guachapele) and seven species from moist tropical forests (Cordia alliodora, Vochysia hondurensis,...
    Propagation Plant Propagation