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Detached leaves: Renewed potential for growth
1Department of Agronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Abstract:
Leaves of Portulaca oleracea that had reached full size on the parent plant showed as much as a four-fold increase in growth when detached and rooted in nutrient solution. Neither addition of indoleacetic acid nor variations in the nutrient concentrations had an effect on the growth rate. Root formation which was necessary to initiate renewed growth of the leaf occurred only in nutrient solution.
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