Setting apart of sprouts from the uterine plants of vegetatively propagated rootstocks

There is a busy season at the researched fields of Uman NUH: second-year students of the Faculty of Horticulture, Environment and Plant Protection pass educational-production practice, during which they set apart and choose rootstocks for planting in the ground. This troublesome process of separating sprouts from the uterine plant is accompanied by sorting: rootstocks of  I and II varieties are planted in the field for inoculation, and the third variety – to completion of growing. Excessively thick rootstocks will be used for winter  inoculation. Precedes the process of separating the sprouts from the uterine plant, defoliation – tearing off leaves. Luxuriant spring flowering of apple trees preceded by intense activity of the employees of Educational-Research and Production Department, lecturers and students.

Educational Practice on Plant Propagation passes under the guidance of master of Plant Propagation, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Senior Lecturer Roman Butsyk. With students are working postgraduate students of the Department of Horticulture and Viticulture Olga Sharapanyuk (head of 21-P group), Makar Tereshchenko (head of 22-P group) and Andriy Chaploutskyy (21-ZR group).

The correctness of performance is controlled by Head of Horticulture and Viticulture Department Professor Oleksandr Melnyk, his school of advanced experience is well known in the horticulture of the world level. A leading lecturer of the course “Plant Propagation” professor Volodymyr Mayboroda also provides consultations.

Seedbed of vegetatively propagated rootstocks with area of 0,9 hectares on the territory of Educational Scientific Production Complex is an excellent base for practical training and research, because it assembled the largest collection of clonal rootstocks of fruit crops in Ukraine, and part of sanitated plant material was bought at the expense of research laboratory of Plant Propagation.

Component of the educational process, that occurs during educational-production practice of students in the seedbed of vegetatively propagated rootstocks, is a scientific basis of training highly qualified agronomists-gardeners, and therefore - one of the motive components of progressive development of horticultural industry.

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