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AssigneeDümmen Group B.V.
InventorsPankaj Bacharam Dhonukshe, Tobias Günter Dummen, Johannes Franciscus Johanna Maria van den Heuvel
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Provided herein are methods for providing improved vigor, and especially priming or improving root formation, of plant cuttings and to plant cuttings obtained thereby. Specifically, the methods include the steps of a) contacting a plant cutting with a polymeric solution, or suspension, optionally including one or more plant growth promoting and/or plant protecting compounds, thereby providing a coated plant cutting; b) allowing the polymeric solution, or suspension, of the coated plant cutting to solidify into a complexed coating, thereby providing an encapsulated plant cutting. The encapsulated plant cutting is coated with the complexed coating from the basal cut surface or tip of the plant cutting to less than 60% of the total length of said plant cutting to partially encapsulate the plant cutting with the complexed coating.
A method for improving the vigour of plant cuttings, said method comprising the steps of:
An encapsulated plant cutting comprising from a basal cut surface of the plant cutting to less than 60% of the total length of said plant cutting a complexed coating comprising a solidified polymeric solution or suspension comprising sodium alginate, wherein said plant cutting is an unrooted portion of a plant stem, and wherein said sodium alginate solution or suspension is solidified in direct contact with the plant cutting by contacting the sodium alginate solution or suspension coated plant cutting with a solution comprising 0.5 to 5% w/v calcium ions for 10 minutes to 1 hour to allow an exchange sodium ions with the calcium ions to produce calcium alginate.
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