Key roles of leaves, stockplant age, and auxin concentration in vegetative propagation of two African mahoganies: Khaya anthotheca Welw. and Khaya
ivorensis A. Chev |
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Authors: | E Opuni-Frimpong D F Karnosky A J Storer J R Cobbinah |
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Institution: | (1) Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, University Box 63, Kumasi, Ghana;(2) School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931, USA |
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Abstract: | Leaf area, IBA concentration and age of stockplants were all found to be important factors for successful rooting for vegetative
propagation using single-node cuttings of the two main African mahogany species: Khaya anthotheca and K. ivorensis. Cuttings with leaf area of 30–50 cm2 had the best rooting percentage and cuttings with about 30 cm2 had the most number of roots per cutting in K. anthotheca. Khaya ivorensis, cuttings with 10–30 cm2 leaf area had the highest rooting percentage. Cuttings collected from 1-year-old stockplants recorded the highest rooting
percentage and largest number of roots per cutting. Cuttings from 3-year-old stockplant of the same seeds sources had the
lowest rooting suggesting aging negatively impacted rooting ability. The effect of auxin concentration, on rootability was
examined with cuttings of K. anthotheca. An IBA concentration of 0.8% was the best exogenous auxin concentration for percentage rooting, number of roots per cutting
and the length of the longest root per cutting. |
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Keywords: | Khaya species Vegetative propagation Rooting Cloning stockplants Cuttings |
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