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Propagation of bigtooth maple by layering

Larry A Rupp, Xin Dai, Melody Richards, Paul Harris and Richard Anderson
Native Plants Journal, June 2021, 22 (2) 124-132; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/npj.22.2.124
Larry A Rupp
Center for Water Efficient Landscaping, Plants, Soils, and Climate Department, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322
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Xin Dai
Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322
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Melody Richards
Plants, Soils, and Climate Department, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322
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Paul Harris
Center for Water Efficient Landscaping, Plants, Soils, and Climate Department, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322
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Utah State University Botanical Center, Kaysville, UT 84037
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Bigtooth maple (Acer grandidentatum Nutt. (syn. Acer saccharum Marsh. ssp. grandidentatum (Nutt.) Desmarais) [Aceraceae]) is native throughout much of the interior western US and has potential for use in water-conserving landscapes. Currently bigtooth maple is available in the trade primarily as budded accessions on seedling rootstocks or as seedling material. Elucidation of alternative propagation methods may facilitate increased production and utilization of this tree for landscape use. Given that it reproduces naturally by layering, a series of mound layer propagation studies on selected accessions were conducted from 2011 to 2019 to determine its efficacy. Rooting efficacy varied with year, accession, girdling, and hormone treatment (4000 ppm indole-3-butyric acid [IBA] and 2000 ppm 1-napthaleneacetic acid [NAA] as Dip’N Grow in 25% ethanol). Overall, results indicate that layering can be an effective means of vegetatively propagating accessions selected from mature bigtooth maple trees. Practitioners should note that over time stock plants became infected with root rot, so it should be guarded against.

KEY WORDS
  • blanching
  • girdling
  • rooting
  • root formation
  • nursery
  • vegetative
  • asexual
  • Aceraceae
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  • Plants: USDA NRCS (2020)
  • Fungi: USDA ARS (2020)
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Larry A Rupp, Xin Dai, Melody Richards, Paul Harris, Richard Anderson
Native Plants Journal Jun 2021, 22 (2) 124-132; DOI: 10.3368/npj.22.2.124

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Larry A Rupp, Xin Dai, Melody Richards, Paul Harris, Richard Anderson
Native Plants Journal Jun 2021, 22 (2) 124-132; DOI: 10.3368/npj.22.2.124
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Keywords

  • blanching
  • girdling
  • rooting
  • root formation
  • nursery
  • vegetative
  • asexual
  • Aceraceae
  • Plants: USDA NRCS (2020)
  • Fungi: USDA ARS (2020)
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