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Article

Shooting of Giant Reed (Arundo donax L.) Stem Cuttings in Cold Greenhouse

by
Piergiorgio Gherbin
1,*,
Simone Milan
2,
Giuseppe Mercurio
1 and
Antonio Scopa
1
1
School of Agricultural, Forest, Food and Environmental Sciences (SAFE), University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
2
Department of Science, University of Basilicata, 85100 Potenza, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Plant Biol. 2016, 7(1), 6294; https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2016.6294
Submission received: 3 November 2015 / Revised: 28 November 2015 / Accepted: 29 November 2015 / Published: 27 July 2016

Abstract

The increasing interest in Arundo donax, a perennial lignocellulosic species only reproducing by propagation, requires the setup of cheap, simple and reliable techniques. Considering these targets, stem cutting offers considerable advantages. The present investigation aimed to compare: (i) plants obtained by different propagation methods (by rhizome and micropropagation mother plants); (ii) plants obtained by stem cuttings from basal, central and apical parts of the stem; (iii) different planting periods (spring, summer, autumn). The obtained results showed that the number of new shoots from stem buds was: (i) higher in the spring and lower in the summer planting period; (ii) higher from cuttings obtained by micropropagated than rhizome mother plants, both in spring and summer plantings; (iii) decreasing passing from the basal to the apical stem portion; (iv) partly unexpressed in the autumn planting period; (v) lower from one-year stem cuttings as compared to two-year stem cuttings.
Keywords: Arundo donax L.; stem cutting; agamic propagation; shoot emergence Arundo donax L.; stem cutting; agamic propagation; shoot emergence

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Gherbin, P.; Milan, S.; Mercurio, G.; Scopa, A. Shooting of Giant Reed (Arundo donax L.) Stem Cuttings in Cold Greenhouse. Int. J. Plant Biol. 2016, 7, 6294. https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2016.6294

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Gherbin P, Milan S, Mercurio G, Scopa A. Shooting of Giant Reed (Arundo donax L.) Stem Cuttings in Cold Greenhouse. International Journal of Plant Biology. 2016; 7(1):6294. https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2016.6294

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Gherbin, Piergiorgio, Simone Milan, Giuseppe Mercurio, and Antonio Scopa. 2016. "Shooting of Giant Reed (Arundo donax L.) Stem Cuttings in Cold Greenhouse" International Journal of Plant Biology 7, no. 1: 6294. https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2016.6294

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Gherbin, P., Milan, S., Mercurio, G., & Scopa, A. (2016). Shooting of Giant Reed (Arundo donax L.) Stem Cuttings in Cold Greenhouse. International Journal of Plant Biology, 7(1), 6294. https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2016.6294

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