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- 6. Any process of breaking, scratching, or mechanically altering the seed coat to make it permeable to water and gases is known as scarification.
- 7. A method of asexual plant propagation that unites one bud (attached to a small piece of bark) from the scion to the rootstock
- 8. The processes that begin after planting a seed that lead to the growth of a new plant.
- 9. To start new plants by seeding, budding, grafting, dividing, etc.
- 10. An asexual method of propagation that involves removing a section of root from a 2- to 3- year-old plant during the dormant season and placing it into growing medium.
- 14. Chilling seed under moist conditions. This method mimics the conditions a seed might endure after it falls to the ground in the autumn
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- 1. Involves the application of tissue culture techniques to propagate plants from very small plant parts (parts of leaves, stems, shoot tips, root tips, single cells, and pollen grains).
- 2. A method of stimulating adventitious roots to form on a stem. There are two primary methods of layering.
- 3. To remove individual, spent flowers from a plant for the purpose of preventing senescence and prolonging blooming.
- 4. Reproduction of a plant using its own vegetative parts.
- 5. Stem rot near the soil surface leading to either failed seed emergence or to the plant’s falling over after emergence.
- 11. One of several forms of asexual propagation.
- 12. A seed leaf, the first leaf from a sprouting seed. Monocots have one cotyledon, dicots have two.
- 13. A method of asexual plant propagation that joins plant parts so they will grow as one plant.