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It was first published by George Demaree (1832–1915) in an article in the American Bee Journal in 1892. [1] Demaree also described a swarm prevention method in 1884, but that was a two-hive system that is unrelated to modern "demareeing".
Grafting is referred to as the artificial method of propagation in which parts of plants are joined together in order to make them bind together and continue growing as one plant. Grafting is mainly applied to two parts of the plant: the dicot and the gymnosperms due to the presence of vascular cambium between the plant tissues: xylem and phloem.
Chip budding is a grafting technique A chip of wood containing a bud is cut out of scion with desirable properties (tasty fruit, pretty flowers, etc.). A similarly shaped chip is cut out of the rootstock, and the scion bud is placed in the cut, in such a way that the cambium layers match. The new bud is usually fixed in place using grafting ...
The queen is the only bee in a colony that has fully developed ovaries; she secretes a pheromone that suppresses the normal development of ovaries in all of her workers. [97] Beekeepers use the ability of the bees to produce new queens to increase their colonies in a procedure called splitting a colony. [98]
Nurse grafting is a method of plant propagation that is used for hard-to-root plant material. If a desirable selection cannot be grown from seed (because a seed-grown plant will be genetically different from the parent), it must be propagated asexually ( cloned ) in order to be genetically identical to the parent.
Grafting wax is a composition of rosin, beeswax, tallow, and similar materials, [1] used in gluing and sealing the wounds of newly grafted trees or shrubs [2] to protect them from infection. The current formulation typically used in the northwestern portion of the United States for fruit trees, is based on a mixture created by Albert Sak, a ...
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A bridge graft is a grafting technique used to re-establish the supply of nutrients to the rootstock of a woody perennial when the full thickness of the bark has been removed from part of the trunk. Damage to the innermost layer of the bark, called the phloem , can interrupt the transport of photosynthesized sugars throughout the tree.