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Comprehensive studies on evaluation of ornamental filler plants, for production of cut foliage and vase life

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Title Comprehensive studies on evaluation of ornamental filler plants, for production of cut foliage and vase life
 
Creator S. A, Safeena
 
Contributor B, Raju
 
Subject grain legumes, asparagus, irrigation, sucrose, harvesting, developmental stages, planting, biological development, evaporation, plant products
 
Description Experiments were conducted to find the best performing species/varieties of
asparagus and ferns as cut foliage, the effect of different growth regulators on growth and
yield of Asparagus under 50% shade net and the effect of pulsing on the vase life.
Among different species/varieties of ornamental asparagus, plant spread of 65.64
cm (East-West) and 56.51 cm (North-South), cladophyll length (212.65cm), breadth
(43.43 cm), stalk length (11.09 cm) internodal length (3.12 cm), vase life (8.40 days),
yield/sq. m (157.27 No’s) and benefit: cost ratio (3.07) was maximum, while the
physiological loss in weight (39.56%) was minimum in Asparagus setaceus syn.
plumosus. Growth regulator treatment with 1500 ppm PBZ produced significantly
higher number of branches per cladophyll (36.73), least internodal length (1.05 cm),
cladophyll length and breadth (39.25 cm and 21.68 cm respectively), higher cladophyll
stalk girth (1.43 cm) and cut foliage yield (29.17 no’s/plant) in Asparagus setaceus syn.
plumosus as compared to control.
Among ferns, Nephrolepis exaltata registered maximum frond length (100.82
cm), vase life (11.40 days), frond yield (2527.29 no’s/sq. m) and benefit:cost ratio (2.43),
but took least time for initiation of newer fronds (3.00 days) and had minimum
physiological loss in weight (12.18 %). Pulsing treatment with 25 ppm BA+200 ppm 8–
HQC+10% sucrose for 24 hours significantly improved the vase life of cut foliages of
Asparagus densiflorus ‘Sprengeri’, A. setaceus syn. plumosus, A. densiflorus ‘Myers’,
Nephrolepis exaltata, N. biserrata and N. cordifolia by 17.00, 28.50, 24.25, 28.50, 10.25
and 21.25 days respectively, while A. densiflorus ‘sprengeri’ compacta recorded 16.50
days when pulsed with 50 ppm BA+200 ppm 8-HQC+10% sucrose for 24 hours.
Likewise pulsing with 25 ppm BA+300 ppm 8-HQC+10% sucrose increased the vase life
(26.50 days) in Polypodium scolopendria.
 
Date 2016-05-19T14:32:46Z
2016-05-19T14:32:46Z
2013-08-14
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier Th-10466
http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/66139
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru