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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Floriculture has been emerging as a future thrust industry in India and referred as tomorrow’s green cultivation. Importance of cut flowers in international flower market makes the growers to take up its cultivation in India. Globally, Anthurium ranks 11th position among the cut flowers and 2nd position among tropical cut flowers. In Karnataka, anthuriums are grown extensively in tropical humid regions viz., Kodagu and Chikkamagaluru districts (Mudigere) for Export purpose. An experiment was conducted during 2016-17 to investigate the effect of growth regulators (BA, GA3, MH, CCC) on suckering habit of Anthurium andreanum var. Tropical under naturally ventilated polyhouse. Results showed that benzyl adenine @ 750 ppm took least (88.67) days to sucker production. Which is on par with BA @ 500 ppm (90.33), BA @ 250and at the final stage of the experiment (at 240 days after spraying) number of suckers per plant was recorded in highest in BA @ 750 ppm (3.33).