
New Root Formation in Plants and Cuttings
M.B. Jackson(Editor)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 30. April 1986
Book
Hardback
XVII, 265 pages
978-90-247-3260-9 (ISBN)
Description
The formation of roots is in some respects one of the least fundamentally understood of all plant functions. Propagation by cuttings is the aspect that will occur first to most gardeners and horticulturists, and it is certainly the most useful application. But any observant traveller in the tropics can notice that some trees have the habit of forming roots in the air. Climbers like Cissus bear long fine strings of roots hanging down. Pandanus trees tend to have stout aerial roots issuing from the bases of the long branches, while the tangle of roots around the trunk of many of the Ficus species is characteristic. In Ficus bengalensis, in particular, stout cylindrical roots firmly embedded in the ground from a height of 3 to 5 meters give support to the long horizontal branches, enabling them to spread still further. In the big old specimen at Adyar near Madras, the spread of these branches all around the tree, each with a strong root growing out every few meters, makes a shaded area under which meetings of almost 5000 people are sometimes held. The history of how the formation of roots on stem cuttings was found to be under hormonal control is worth repeating here.
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Series
Edition
1986 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XVII, 265 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
594 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-247-3260-9 (9789024732609)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-4358-2
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Content
Ontogeny and anatomy of lateral roots.- Endogenous and exogenous influences on the regulation of lateral root formation.- Adventitious roots of whole plants: their forms, functions and evolution.- Anatomical changes during adventitious root formation.- Metabolic processes in adventitious rooting of cuttings.- Endogenous control of adventitious rooting in nonwoody cuttings.- Environmental influences on adventitious rooting in cuttings of non-woody species.- Index of plant names.