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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.

As in other methods of vegetative or asexual plant propagation -- cutting, division, layering and tissue culture -- grafting allows us to create exact genetic duplicates of superior individual plants.

In vegetative propagation, you take a piece of a plant, whether it is a cutting (leaf, stem or root), layering, a division, grafting, budding or tissue, and the resulting plant is an exact clone ...

Plant grafting, an ancient yet ... This process not only supports vegetative propagation and crop improvement but also provides a unique system to study intercellular communication.

First, there is seed propagation, which requires the correct light, heat, and humidity to be successful. Methods of asexual propagation include cuttings, layering, budding and grafting. Cuttings ...

“Grafting and budding are the most generally used vegetative propagation method,” she says. How to graft According to Dhikusooka, a fruit farmer can conduct grafting throughout the year.

Crops are propagated by seed, cuttings, grafting, and tissue culture. The science of crop propagation is often driven by their desired characteristics like taste, colour, size and disease resistance.

Grafting as a means of vegetative propagation is well known. Less well known is that genes may move from one plant to another by grafting. Recently, Stegemann and Bock (2009) showed that genetic ...