FLOWERING IN CULM CUTTINGS AT NURSERY STAGE IN BAMBUSA NUTANS

Abstract

India especially in and around Dehra Dun. It is one of the year April 2006 (Figure 1). The growth characters of the widely cultivated homestead species in Tripura, Assam, selected mother clump are given in Table 1. Orissa, West Bengal of India and Bangladesh and one of Three offsets of the selected mother plant were the commercial species of Thailand. There are many transported from Bilaspur and were planted and flowering records for different years from 1893, established in germplasm garden of G.B. Pant University authentic gregarious flowering reports after 1840 are for of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. In the year the years 1894-96, 1966, 1979-80 and 1987-88 2008, a culm was harvested from the 2-year old (Seethalakshmi and Kumar, 1998). Apart from sporadic established mother plant for making culm cuttings for flowering, the bamboo seems to flower gregariously further multiplication. The culms were cut into 3 nodal after 35 years and at least two separate flowering cycles segments. Cuttings were treated with 500 ppm IBA are involved. solution and were placed in sand propagation beds in Germplasm garden for bamboo was established at nursery for rooting. Misting was provided to the cuttings. Agroforestry Research Centre of G.B. Pant University of Sprouting (40 per cent was observed after 12 days). The Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. The germplasm twigs produced in culm cutting also flowered within a garden mainly aims at identification and centralizing week (10 per cent). No rooting was observed in all culm better mother plants of bamboo. For centralizing plus cuttings and so could not survive. Simultaneously it was clumps, regular exploration visits are being made since also observed that the newly established clump in the 2005. In one such survey, one candidate plus clump (CPC) germplasm garden from where the cuttings were