Sentence examples for olive propagation from inspiring English sources

Although detailed information on olive propagation exists from the classical era, molecular evidence for the practice of grafting of olive trees through history is very limited (e.g. [ 13]).

Irrespective of this, our results provide strong evidence that grafting was the most common technique for olive propagation in the Levant at the time when these trees were first grown.

Considering that most of our knowledge on olive tree propagation is based on old scripts, our results for the first time unambiguously show that grafting on rootstocks was practiced in the past as the main propagation technique in the Levant.

Past clonal propagation of olive trees is intimately linked to grafting.

Following Theophrastos (De Causis Plantarum and Historia Plantarum, 371 287 BCE), vegetative propagation of olive trees in ancient times included planting of cuttings (leafy stems) and layers (rooting stems that are still attached to the mother tree).

We obtained strong evidence that the overwhelming majority of old olive trees in IL and the PA originate from vegetative propagation of a single ancestral clone.

Alternatively, grafting scions on suckers of the same individual may have been used as an easy propagation technique which is still being practiced by some traditional olive growers in the Levant today.

Zohary and Spiegel-Roy (1975) state that olives, grapes, figs, dates and pomegranates were essentially preadapted to domestication because of their ease of vegetative propagation, and that yield was increased through subsequent cloning of fortuitous hybrids between domestic clones and wild populations.

Vegetative propagation has many advantages.

"The propagation had gone well," she said.

This coconut was used for propagation purposes.