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Stimulating Axillary Buds in Yams (Dioscorea SPP)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

O. O. Okoli
O. O. Okoli
Affiliation:
National Root-crops Research Institute, Umudike, Umuahia, Nigeria
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Summary

A method is described of inducing many ‘eyes’ on yam tubers to sprout, and of using the sprout-bearing segments as propagules for establishing yam fields. The number of such propagules obtainable from a tuber depends on its size, but the method greatly increases the rate of propagation and holds special promise for both breeding and commercial production of yam.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1978 , pp. 89 - 92
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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