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Growth enhancement of tissue culture plantlets at poly-bag nursery stage

Banana is a major fruit crop in the tropical and subtropical region of the world making it one of the hugely commercialized and demanded crops. Although there are technologies being applied and utilized to increase the production of banana crop such as the application of tissue culture technology th...

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Main Author: Leong, Wai Hong
Format: Undergraduate Final Project Report
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/6158/
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spelling my.umk.eprints.61582022-05-23T08:45:30Z http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/6158/ Growth enhancement of tissue culture plantlets at poly-bag nursery stage Leong, Wai Hong Banana is a major fruit crop in the tropical and subtropical region of the world making it one of the hugely commercialized and demanded crops. Although there are technologies being applied and utilized to increase the production of banana crop such as the application of tissue culture technology that effectively multiply banana, the production of the crop remains under supplied due to the ever increasing demand. Therefore, there is a need to keep up with the increasing demand of the fruit crop. One of the ways is by shortening the nursery period of the tissue cultured banana plantlets. Hence, the objective of this study is to shorten the nursery period by applying fertilizer treatment during the nursery period (acclimatization) to enhance the growth rate of plantlets. The fertilizer treatments included HI-NK™, HI-PK™ and WONDERFUL™ which commercial fertilizer products of varying nutrient formulations supplied by Agricultural Chemicals (M) Sdn. Bhd. The results indicated that vegetative growth parameters (stem height, girth circumference, number of functional leaves and leaf area) of treated plantlets were significantly improved compared to the control treatment. The fertilizer treatment particularly HlNK™ which is higher in nitrogen ratio proved to have a great influence in terms of vegetative growth parameters in the study. Hence, fertilizers with higher ratio of nitrogen, N especially foliar type is effective in enhancing the growth rate of plantlets thus, shortening the nursery period. 2015 Undergraduate Final Project Report NonPeerReviewed Leong, Wai Hong (2015) Growth enhancement of tissue culture plantlets at poly-bag nursery stage. Undergraduate Final Project Report thesis, Faculty of Agro Based Industry. (Submitted)
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description Banana is a major fruit crop in the tropical and subtropical region of the world making it one of the hugely commercialized and demanded crops. Although there are technologies being applied and utilized to increase the production of banana crop such as the application of tissue culture technology that effectively multiply banana, the production of the crop remains under supplied due to the ever increasing demand. Therefore, there is a need to keep up with the increasing demand of the fruit crop. One of the ways is by shortening the nursery period of the tissue cultured banana plantlets. Hence, the objective of this study is to shorten the nursery period by applying fertilizer treatment during the nursery period (acclimatization) to enhance the growth rate of plantlets. The fertilizer treatments included HI-NK™, HI-PK™ and WONDERFUL™ which commercial fertilizer products of varying nutrient formulations supplied by Agricultural Chemicals (M) Sdn. Bhd. The results indicated that vegetative growth parameters (stem height, girth circumference, number of functional leaves and leaf area) of treated plantlets were significantly improved compared to the control treatment. The fertilizer treatment particularly HlNK™ which is higher in nitrogen ratio proved to have a great influence in terms of vegetative growth parameters in the study. Hence, fertilizers with higher ratio of nitrogen, N especially foliar type is effective in enhancing the growth rate of plantlets thus, shortening the nursery period.
format Undergraduate Final Project Report
author Leong, Wai Hong
spellingShingle Leong, Wai Hong
Growth enhancement of tissue culture plantlets at poly-bag nursery stage
author_facet Leong, Wai Hong
author_sort Leong, Wai Hong
title Growth enhancement of tissue culture plantlets at poly-bag nursery stage
title_short Growth enhancement of tissue culture plantlets at poly-bag nursery stage
title_full Growth enhancement of tissue culture plantlets at poly-bag nursery stage
title_fullStr Growth enhancement of tissue culture plantlets at poly-bag nursery stage
title_full_unstemmed Growth enhancement of tissue culture plantlets at poly-bag nursery stage
title_sort growth enhancement of tissue culture plantlets at poly-bag nursery stage
publishDate 2015
url http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/6158/
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