Variation in Rooting Responses and in other Characters of Half-sib Juvenile Cuttings from <I>Eucalyptus tereticornis</I> (Mysore Gum)

Abstract

Easy rootability being an important criterion for selection of superior trees for mass-multiplication, rooting of juvenile cuttings from nine month old half-sib progenies of selected trees were taken up, which revealed significant differences in rooting responses along with other traits. It was observed that progenies of C1, C2 and C3 trees performed best. Correlation among all the characters were found to be sufficiently high and the parent-progeny correlation revealed significant positive relationships between DBH x Number of leaves and Height x Number of leaves. Further investigations on mature-juvenile relationships based on number of leaves in seedlings may be necessary.