I. Identify the information need, describe background information, so what who cares, ~ 1 paragraph
Growing your own food is a highly rewarding and economical experience. There is nothing like the feeling of watching the seeds that you sowed sprout through the soil and begin to grow tall. After months of care, your garden is filled with vining beanstalks, tall shoots of brussels sprouts, and the tops of carrots letting you know of the treasures that lie under the earth. As you learn to grow different varieties of fruits and vegetables, the more you want to learn. The food you grow is delicious, and instead of running to the store to buy the onion you forgot you needed, you can just open your back door and pull one from the ground, saving you hundreds of dollars by the end of the year. After supplementing my own grocery list with the food that I’ve grown, I can’t help but want to find even more to grow. When I visited the Propagation Fair at LCC and saw the hundreds, if not thousands, of twigs used for grafting trees, I became highly interested in growing trees. I knew that grafting was a significant part of that, and having always wanted to grow my own apples, I decided that I wanted to learn more about what the process was to graft apple trees.
II. State the research question and give a nutshell answer
I had heard of grafting in conversations with other gardeners, and in passing throughout the various botany classes that I have taken, but I didn’t know much more than the basics. After deciding that I wanted to grow my own fruit trees, I wanted to learn more about what tree grafting is, why it is used, particularly for apples, and some techniques on how it is done. As it turns out, grafting is a process in which a branch o...
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...f fruit you want, so long as the conditions are right. You can even grow more than one kind of fruit on a tree by grafting more than one scion to different branches on the rootstock. Supplementing your diet with food that you have grown yourself is extremely rewarding and should not be overlooked as a viable option.
I. Conclusion, re-emphasize nutshell answer
Grafting is an ingenious technique discovered thousands of years ago that allows two or more plants to be joined together. The scion is chosen based on what cultivar you are interested in growing, whether it be a particular kind of leaf, or a type of flower, or a specific variety of fruit, such as the apple, which can only be replicated through grafting. Each method of grafting is suitable for different kinds of conditions, but the easiest Cleft Graft only requires a few simple supplies and a little care.
Terry Kay’s father cultivates fruit trees. Fruit trees generally live for approximately ten years then die off. It takes fruit trees three to five years before they will bear fruit. Overall fruit trees require a short term commitment. Although Kay’s father became famous for his well grown trees, it did not require the dedication and time that Sam Peek had to exert for his pecan trees.[b2] In the novel Sam Peek has dedicated his life to the growth and production of his pecan trees. Pecan trees take at least five years to yield fruit and can live up to seventy-five years. They take much more time and effort to yield profit. Cultivating pecan trees is a life long project. In the novel Sam Peek dedicates his life to the care of his pecan trees. In his old age, when he is retired from the tree business, he still has the commitment to go to the pecan orchard and pull weeds. This shows Sam Peeks strong bonds to his life and family[b3]. He is very much tied down to the land around his family home. His dedication to his trees is because he wishes to provide a good life for his family. He pours a lot of effort into this wish.
Modern biotechnology was born at the hands of American scientists Herb Boyer and Stain Cohen, when they developed “recombinant deoxyribonucleotide, (rDNA), [1] for medicinal purposes. Subsequently, biotechnologists started genetically engineering agricultural plants using this technology. A single gene responsible for a certain trait, from one organism (usually a bacterium) is selected altered and then ‘spliced” into the DNA of a plant to create an agricultural crop consisting of that...
Acer palmatum has many different varieties that have different colors, leaf shapes, and growth habits. The tree openly pollinates, which means that seeds from a specific cultivar will not be an exact clone of the parent tree. For this reason, propagation f...
Many seemingly unrelated factors might determine the ability of a specific tissue to regenerate into shoots and roots. Among them, mineral nutrients, plant growth regulators and environmental factors are critical. All ready standardized media for somatic embryogenesis and regeneration adopted to carry out regeneration round study. The medium consisted of macronutrients, micro nutrients, Fe-EDTA, vitamins, amino acids, sucrose/maltose, agar and plant growth regulators (auxins and cytokines). Coconut Water (CW) was used as organic additives in regeneration experiments. This was collected from tender nuts, filtered through Whatman filter paper (3 mm) and added in medium before autoclaving.
Organic food has become so popular these days, since people especially in United States are making a commitment to have a good start towards a healthier life. People often doubt whether the organic food is really healthier and more nutritious? Why does it cost so expensive? Well, first of all, the term “organic” is referring to the way agricultural products are grown and processed which later on will affected the quality of the food. In order for a product to be labeled as “organic”, they must meet several specific conditions and requirements. Consuming organic food will not only affect health, but also the existence of animals as well as the food resource and the environment.
To some an acorn is just an acorn, nothing more than a nut. The acorn with its tough leathery outside and rich amber color signifies nothing more than the commencement of autumn. To others it represents a great deal of potential. This tiny seed has the ability to endure many adverse effects including long periods of cold temperatures, drought, and human interference. The fragile acorn contains all the necessary elements to become the giant, majestic oak that has come to signify strength. When the conditions are favorable, the little nut will thrive and become an impressive adult tree providing oxygen and shade as nature intended. The most important factor to the budding tree is the environment. Like all other living things, the acorn needs care and ideal circumstances to develop properly. This is also true for humans and their offspring. Creating the perfect environment for an infant to flourish is quite possibly, the single most important factor to the success of a well-adjusted, adult human.
Even though cloning methods have been in use for an extended period of time, the idea of a clone was never thought to be realistic until recently. For thousands of years, humans have been cloning plants through asexual propagation. This is simply the process of stem cutting or grafting a mammal was performed in Switzerland nearly 20 years after the carrot plant where mice cells were cloned. Later, in 1997, Dolly the sheep’s mammary cells were cloned (Lee). This was a major success for science because it was the first time an adult cell was used in which results in a clone of the previous generation of the plant and is still a method used today. It wasn’t until 1958 when modern cloning began with a carrot and in 1964 when scientist John Gurdon started the beginning of animal cell cloning of toad tadpoles. The first successful clone of embryonic cell. After scientists gained a greater knowledge of the process of cloning, they realized that it could possibly be used to benefit the world. In 2001, the first endangered species, the bull gaur, was cloned, and in...
When people hear the two words “Organic Foods”, many questions come to mind. Such questions include “what is organic food”, “what does the term organic mean”, and “why should I spend more money on organic food”? Organic food began many years ago before new discoveries and technology ever existed. Throughout the decades, organic food has evolved and caught more attention from buyers and producers than ever before. There are many standards in place to authorize the use of the label “Organic” and also to ensure quality. Regulations and enforcement is placed highly. Understanding the many different labels can be confusing due to the variety of the many different labels. Knowing what to look for and buy is the key to buying truly organic food therefore reaping all the many benefits. Tips will be discussed for those who do not have a full understanding of purchasing organic foods. Many benefits will be derived from going the extra mile to buy and eat organic food. Many researches have been done in supporting the benefits of organic foods. Organic food is a holistic approach acting as a preventive measure and also as a treatment of one’s disease based on individual daily diet.
A seed from an apple will generally grow if it’s planted under satisfactory conditions, however, the apples will be smaller and poorer than the apple from which the seed was taken. For this reason, apple trees should be planted from buds cut from a healthy tree. This type of apple planting is called grafting.
do. God had said that Adam and Eve may eat any fruit from any of the trees in
He traveled in a hollowed-out log with orchards worth of apple seeds with him and is a classic demonstration of the mutual benefit between people and plants. Humans give themselves too much credit when it comes to dominating and controlling other species. We believe that we can domesticate every plant, while in reality the process takes two to perform. For example, the oak tree denies domestication from humans, instead interacting primarily with squirrels. The squirrels are able to receive food through the acorns of the oak, while the oak benefits by the squirrels burying some of the acorns for the benefit of oak trees, resulting in no need for humans to step in to the perfectly functional arrangement. The relationship between humans and the apple was much the opposite, both benefitting greatly from one another. The apple has heterozygosity, meaning it has an immense amount of genetic variability. This allows the plant to easily grow in different climates, and by doing so it creates millions of different species. Johnny Appleseed played an important role in the establishment of apples all over America, managing to plant a chain of nurseries reaching from Pennsylvania to Indiana. He was welcomed into people’s homes as a legend, and in return for hosting him, Chapman would plant a few apple trees for them as a sign of thanks. Many settlers along his route also encouraged him to plant nurseries nearby, due to the apples main value back then being to produce hard cider. Chapman became a transporter of alcohol, as the apples were far too sour for anyone to eat on its own, and his popularity grew even further. The Prohibition came along, and the strike down on alcohol meant the cutting down of Chapman’s trees. Because of his extensive efforts to spread the seeds of the Apple tree, the
Cloning is asexual reproduction. Cuttings are taken from a mother plant in vegatative growth, and rooted in hydroponic medium to be grown as a separate plant. The offspring will be plants that are identical to the parent plant.
Biotechnology can be defined as a “collection of tools for modifying tree physiology and genetics to aid breeding, propagation and research” (Burdon and Libby 2006). These tools include the use of tissue culture, genetic engineering (genetic modification) and the use of genetic markers for marker assisted breeding (Harry and Strauss 2010).
Asexual propagation is the process through which reproduction without passage through the seed cycle occurs. The advantages of asexual propagation are that it preserves genetic makeup, propagates seedless plants, disease control, rapid production, the plants are identical, cheaper, faster and easier reducing or avoiding juvenility. The disadvantages of asexual propagation are that it increases disease and insect susceptibility, plants are bulky, and the mother plants could become contaminated. The goal of this experiment was to determine the development of adventitious roots and shoots, and observe these plants over a period of five weeks. Due to auxin being produced in the tip, tip cuttings should root faster than any other cuttings. Auxin is a plant hormone that is responsible for cell elongation and enlargement, root formation, and growth. There are two forms of auxins; phototropism, which is produced in the tip and moves downward on the side away from the light and gravitropism, which is where plant roots grow downward and plant shoots grow upward.(Plant Auxin 201...
Apple trees have been dropping their babies from the sky, hurling them towards the ground in hopes that they will grow new trees. Unfortunately, as I trudge through their corpses on the gravel road, I have seen this to be a vain hope of nature that cannot adapt to human expansion. There are tracks, however, in these apple stained roads and perhaps humans will expand that throughout the