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Write short notes on the following:
(d) Grafting
(d) Grafting
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- A small shoot or bud of the desired variety of plants is intimately fixed on the stem of another plant of the same or the related species.
- The plant receiving the bud or the shoot is called stock and the shoot fixed on it is called the scion.
- The grafted points are bound together with tape and the joint is covered with wax to prevent dehydration and is protected from any bacterial infection.
- Grafting is important to develop disease-resistant varieties of plants with desirable characteristics.
- A small shoot or bud of the desired variety of plants is intimately fixed on the stem of another plant of the same or the related species.
- The plant receiving the bud or the shoot is called stock and the shoot fixed on it is called the scion.
- The grafted points are bound together with tape and the joint is covered with wax to prevent dehydration and is protected from any bacterial infection.
- Grafting is important to develop disease-resistant varieties of plants with desirable characteristics.
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