Abstract:
The experiment was conducted at the Agroforestry Farm of Sher-e-Bangla
Agricultural University (SAU), Dhaka during the period from April 2019 to
September 2019 to study the effect of different phytohormones on root and shoot
development of Moringa cuttings. Cuttings were grown with five treatments viz.,
(i) T
1
(Honey), (ii) T
2
(Rooton hormone), (iii) T
3
ii
(Auxin), (iv) T
4
(Cutting hormone)
and (v) T
5
(Water as control) by following the single factor Completely Randomized
Design (CRD). Each treatment was replicated eight times. Data on the selected
parameters were collected from randomly selected Cuttings of each treatment and
analyzed statistically. In this experiment the highest results in respective parameter
were found from T
1
(Honey) treatment. The highest number of buds at 15, 30, 45
and 60 days after transplanting (DAT) (3, 4.33, 4.33 and 6.67), number of branches
per plant (6.67), number of leaves per plant (53.67), leaves length per plant (71 cm),
leaves base length per leaf (15.33 cm), third internode length of leaves from top (9.6
cm) were found in T
1
treatment. The lowest number of buds found at 15, 30, 45 and
60 DAT (0.67, 1.33, 1.33 and 1.67), number of branches per plant (1.67), number
of leaves per plant (13.67), leaves length per plant (44.67 cm), leaves base length
per leaf (13.33 cm) and third internode length of leaves from top (7.57 cm) found in
T
4
treatment. Maximum number of rachilas per leaves (17.33), number of roots per
plant (20.33), root length per plant (18 cm), fresh weight of roots per plant (26.24
g), fresh weight of shoot per plant (730.51 g), dry weight of roots (5.98 g) and dry
weight of shoot (158.07 g) found in T
1
Treatment. Minimum number of rachilas
(14), number of roots per plant (9.33), root length per plant (9.33 cm), fresh weight
of roots per plant (9.01 g), fresh weight of shoot per plant (149.11 g), dry weight of
roots (2.10 g) and lowest weight of shoot per plant (33.76 g) found in T
4
treatment.
The highest number of leaflets per leaves found with cutting hormone (398.67) and
the lowest number of leaflets number found with Honey (331.67). Thus, it revealed
that treatment T
1
(Honey) could successfully be used as rooting phytohormone in
Moringa cutting propagation.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGROFORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
