Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The experiment entitled “Study the standardization of rootstock age in cleft grafting of papaya (Carica papaya L.)” was conducted at experimental farm, under Pt. Kishori Lal Shukla College of Horticulture and Research Station, Pendri, Rajnandgaon,Chhattisgarh. The experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with five treatments and three replications. The result revealed that among treatments T1 (2 month seedling with cleft grafting) had highest graft success: minimum number of days taken to first sprouting (8.09 days), the maximum number of leaves per graft (9.26), age of rootstock (29.31 cm), length of scion (15.42 cm), length of rootstock (13.89), diameter of scion girth (27.47 mm), diameter of rootstock (35.83 mm), length of root (14.50 cm) and girth of root (10.90 mm).
Authors: Charu Thakur, Dr. Shishir Prakash Sharma, Dr. Umesh B Deshmukh, Dr. Gunjan Jha, Dr. Dikheshwar Nishad, Vivek Kumar Panna, Umesh Kumar Yadu
Institution: Indira Gandhi Agricultural University
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4403253398