The influence of substrate and cuttings’ type on rooting capacity of Morus alba species

Authors

  • Orsolya Borsai University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca Author
  • Dan Cosmin University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Horticulture and Business in Rural Development, Mănăștur St. 3-5, 400372, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Author
  • Lehel Lukács Horticultural Research Station Cluj-Napoca, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Horticultorilor St., No. 5, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Author
  • Flavia Andrecan University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Horticulture and Business in Rural Development, Mănăștur St. 3-5, 400372, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Author
  • Viorel Mitre The Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences “Gheorghe Ionescu-Șișești”, Mărăști St.,No. 61, Sector 1, Bucharest, Romania Author
  • Cornel Negrușier University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Horticulture and Business in Rural Development, Mănăștur St. 3-5, 400372, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Author
  • Daniela Poșta University of Life Science "King Mihai I" from Timișoara, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Technologies 119 Aradului Street, 300645 Timisoara, Romania Author
  • Mirela Irina Cordea University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Horticulture and Business in Rural Development, Mănăștur St. 3-5, 400372, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Author
  • Sándor Rózsa University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Horticulture and Business in Rural Development, Mănăștur St. 3-5, 400372, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Author

Keywords:

hardwood cuttings, white mulberry, propagation, rooting medium, biostimulator

Abstract

The cultivation of white mulberry has a long and important history being an important crop for sericulture but also for humans due to its various therapeutic properties. The number of mulberry trees as food plants for the sericulture industry significantly decreased in the last years. Therefore, the main aim of this research was to optimize mulberry propagation methods by hardwood cuttings, since its propagation by seeds is undesirable due to cross-pollination and pronounced heterozygosity of the plants. Besides, mulberry seeds are photosensitive and requires high temperatures to germinate (min. 8 light hours and 30 °C during the day versus 16 hours of 20 °C during night). In order to break seed dormancy pretreatments are needed which can take up to 8-9 weeks and are expensive. To carry out this study two types of cuttings (straight and mallet), 4 different rooting medium mixtures and a rooting hormone were used to test the efficiency of the method. The results show that mallet cuttings treated with radi-stim rooting hormone and inserted into a mixture of universal substrate and sand reached the highest rooting percentage as compared to the other experimental treatments.

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Published

2024-12-11

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Vol. 28 No. 2 (2024)

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