Plant propagation crossword
Across
- 5. Growing a special species of plant artificially in sterile conditions.
- 7. Cutting a part of the stem and planting it hoping to produce their own roots.
- 12. Planting a plant in a greenhouse and then moving it outdoors when it's a seedling
- 13. Making new plants from the stems, leafs, or roots of a single parent plant.
- 14. Taking a small tissue or group and growing it in agar.
- 15. Sugar based gel made from algae
- 19. Putting 2 plants or plant parts together to grow together.
- 21. Lower portion of a graft.
- 26. Asexual reproduction using a plant's leaf.
- 27. Roots forming on a stem still attached to the parent plant
- 29. Asexual reproduction using a plant's root.
- 30. When seedlings are placed in an environment that is cooler and watered less.
- 31. Breaking a seeds hard coating so they can accept moisture.
- 32. Short piece of stem with 2 or more buds. Upper portion of grafting.
Down
- 1. White tissue that forms over an injured part of a plant
- 2. Planting right into the soil outdoors
- 3. Transferring one plant's genes to another artificially.
- 4. Reproducing plants from the seeds or vegetative parts of a plant.
- 6. Piece of a plant grown from tissue culture
- 8. Reproduction of plants using seeds
- 9. Where new shoots or leafs are produced above the dirt
- 10. A fungal disease that makes a plant's stem rot at the soil line.
- 11. When a plant cuts itself into a new part to make a new plant naturally.
- 16. The percentage of seeds that successfully sprout within a given timeframe.
- 17. Taking natural structures from a parent plant and planting them to grow on their own.
- 18. Bark with a single plant bud put onto a plant to grow into another plant.
- 20. Plants grown from seeds.
- 22. An exact copy
- 23. An undifferentiated mass of cells that can turn into roots, leafs, or other parts of the plant.
- 24. Asexual propagation method using a leaf, petiole, and a short piece of stem.
- 25. Grown from explants. Smaller versions of their adult plants.
- 28. Cooling the soil of a plant so that it can get past the dormancy some go through.