Effects of Rooting Hormones on the Juvenile Stem Cuttings of Dioscoreophyllum Cumminssi (Stapf) Diels (Serendipity Berry)

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• Volume 3,Issue 2, Mar. 2016

Year:

2016

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Rooting Hormones, Juvenile Stem Cuttings, Dioscoreophyllum Cumminssi

Authors:

Bamigboye, T. O.; Kayode, J.; Obembe, M.

Journal:

IJRAS

Volume:

3

Number:

2

Pages:

96-98

Month:

March

ISSN:

2348-3997

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Abstract:

The effect of some rooting hormones on the juvenile stem cuttings of Dioscoreophyllum cumminssi was investigated. Uniform, healthy, single node leafy stem cuttings were obtained from eighty (80) uniformly growing seedlings. The cuttings were treated with 1mg/ml of indole butyric acid (IBA), 1mg/ml of indole acetic acid (IAA), coconut water and distil water as control, using the quick dip method. The percentage survival of the cuttings, percentage of die back, number of new roots formed per cutting, length of new roots formed, and number of new shoot were assessed after 60 days. Results obtained revealed that the species responded differently to the four treatments and significant differences abound between all the treatments. Indo butyric acid had the highest survivor percentage (80%) and indo acetic acid had the lowest (20%). Also, significant differences abound in the numbers of roots. Coconut water had the highest mean value (21.25) and IAA had the least (5.50). Coconut water also had the highest mean value for new shoot but there was no significant difference between the values obtained from coconut water and IBA. Similarly significant differences were not observed between the values obtained from IAA and distil water. Results from the root length revealed that IBA had the highest mean value however no significant difference was observed between IBA and coconut water as well as the values obtained in IAA and distil water. Thus the use of natural growth hormone might enhance the development of the stem cuttings of this species from the wild.

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