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Multiple buds in sugarcane

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Proceedings / Indian Academy of Sciences

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  1. 1.

    The non-genitical nature of bud-abnormalities of various types has been universally admitted except in one case reported by Jeswiet in which triple buds persisted in a clone even after vegetative propagation for 4 years. Their occurrence is ascribed to hormones, minor elements or diminished apical dominance by different workers.

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    Out of 69 stalks belonging to 24 varieties with multiple buds, several had insect injury in immediate neighbourhood while in many others no outward manifestation of any disturbance was descernible. Greater number of stalks found in one variety than in the other, indicates a varietal propensity towards such malformations.

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    In 8 cases beloging to 5 varieties, occarance of multiple bud was found associated with curvature in that portion of the stalks while in 3 of these and 7 others such buds were formed on alternate nodes.

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    Geotropic disturbance of stalk is discussed as a plausible explanation to account fir these observed facts.

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  1. Central Sugarcane Research Station Pusa, Bihar

    S. L. Sharma

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Communicated by Shri K. L. Khanna,f.a.sc.

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Sharma, S.L. Multiple buds in sugarcane. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 41, 74–78 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03050326

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