PROBABLY no scientific problem more urgently needs attention in tropical agriculture than the establishment of standard yielding plantations from selected plants by methods of vegetative propagation.

THE Imperial Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops, East Malling, has issued Technical Communication 13 on this subject by G. St. Clair Fielden and R. J. Garner. It deals with the vegetative ...

A corm is a solid, underground vegetative storage structure with distinct nodes and internodes. Dry leaf bases attached to each node enclose the mature corm; dry, scale-like leaves, the tunic ...

Plant propagation simply refers to the reproduction of plants, and occurs by seeds or vegetative means such as cuttings (leaf, stem or root), division, layering, grafting, budding and tissue cultures.