Bringing the Art and Science of Cutting Propagation Back to the Bench

摘要

As a propagation instructor at the University of Rhode Island for 20 years I often have been asked to help develop protocols for propagating research plants. Typically the scientist wants to start right away, and is frustrated when I let them know that they should have started preparing a year or two earlier. Of course they are even more frustrated when they set up a half-baked propagation experiment and it fails. Plant propagation has been characterized as part science and part art - which it is, but it also is part experience, part preparation and part good record keeping.