Claim · model-written summary
Apical cuttings had better rooting percentage, root length, root number and survival than basal cuttings.
- Taxon
- bush teae0
- Treatment
- apicale0
- Outcome
- rooting percentage, root length, root number and survival percentagee0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- basal cuttingse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
e0“Cutting position had a highly significant effect (P<0.001) on rooting and transplanting survival of bush tea with better rooting percentage, root length, root number and survival percentage from apical than from basal cuttings.”
Title
Hintsa T. Araya; Elsie Sophia Du Toit; Fhatuwani N. Mudau; et al. UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria) 2007
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Composted pine bark improved root number.
- Intervention effect Composted pine bark had no effect on rooting, survival or root length.
- Intervention effect Seradix rooting hormone increased root number.
- Intervention effect Seradix rooting hormone increased post-transplant shoot length.
- Intervention effect Rooting hormone did not affect rooting percentage, survival or root length.
- Association Season differed significantly for rooting percentage, root number and root length.
- Intervention effect Autumn propagation produced longer roots.
- Intervention effect Spring propagation improved root number.
- Recommendation The authors recommend apical bush tea cuttings in pine bark with Seradix in spring for 30 days.