Alstroemeria is a versatile cut flower and has occupied a prominent position among the top ten cut flowers in the global floriculture industry. The increasing popularity and acceptability in the global perspective has mainly attributed to the long vase life, wide spectrum of colors available, ever blooming habit and high yield of flowers besides ease into its cultivation under varied agroclimatic conditions. Plants are generally multiplied by division of rhizomes but the slow multiplication rate discourages the growers who want to take up alstroemeria cultivation. High costs keeps in vitro...

Gladiolus is one of the most important bulbous flower crops of high commercial value grown in India and abroad predominantly for cut flower production. Unavailability of sufficient amount of planting material of a desirable cultivar is one of the major limitations of gladiolus cultivation on a commercial scale. Increasing planting material of gladiolus by successful division of corms and further manipulating its growth with the application of plant growth regulators like GA3 can overcome the above limitation to a certain extent. The size of the planting material is another main factor to be...

Fertigation is the technique in which the fertilizers are applied directly in low concentrations at the site of root zone which in turn increase the efficiency of the nutrients. The enhanced nutrient uptake thus helps the plant to optimally utilized and translocate the nutrients for better vegetative growth thus enabling the plant to get established which in turn increases the multiplication rate. In this book the role of nitrogen fertigation in enhancing the propagation rate in Alstroemeria cv. Pluto has been highlighted which would be beneficial for its clonal multiplication.