- Title
- Horticultural propagation of the threatened species, Syncarpha revurvata (L.f.)B. Nord
- Creator
- Swart, Pierre André
- Subject
- Horticultural crops -- Propagation
- Subject
- Plant propagation
- Subject
- Horticulture
- Date Issued
- 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- vital:10624
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/613
- Identifier
- Horticultural crops -- Propagation
- Identifier
- Plant propagation
- Identifier
- Horticulture
- Description
- Syncarpha recurvata (L.f.) B. Nord. (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae) is listed as a vulnerable (intermediate priority) species. The propagation methods of achene germination, stem cuttings, air layering and micropropagation were investigated to obtain an efficient propagation method. Smoke water dilutions of 1:100, 1:50 and 1:10 significantly increased germination, with the 1:100 smoke water dilutions showing the highest germination percentage (22.4 percent). Achenes collected between August and October 2005 showed higher germination and viability than achenes collected between May and July 2006. Fifty percent of the stem cuttings and 32 percent of the airlayered branches rooted. Embryo culture was the only successful culture type out of the four attempted. Two embryos germinated and four became photosynthetic. Two of the germinated embryos also produced callus cells, a medium supplemented with 5 μM IAA may be used to test for a suitable plant regulator for organogenesis or embryogenesis. Syncarpha recurvata plants were also transplanted into pots and 60 percent survived. A growth rate of 1.466 mm y-1 was obtained from total shoot length measurements. In this study, it was found that air-layering branches of transplanted Syncarpha recurvata plants is the most efficient propagation method.
- Format
- 151 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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