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Making flowers in the vase retain freshness longer

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Washington,  (IANS) Tomorrow's fragrant bouquets and colourful potted plants might retain freshness longer, thanks to advances in floriculture research.

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant physiologist Cai-Zhong Jiang's investigations might help boost the vase life of favourite cut flowers and shelf life of prized potted plants. He is collaborating with University of California-Davis (UCD) researchers.

Jiang, UCD colleague Michael S. Reid and co-researchers have shown that spraying low concentrations of a compound known as thidiazuron (TDZ) has significant, sometimes spectacular effects in extending the life of potted plants' leaves and flowers.

For example, in tests with greenhouse-grown cyclamen plants, TDZ-treated plants had a significantly longer life than did unsprayed plants, according to Jiang. Leaves of TDZ-treated cyclamen plants took longer to yellow and fall off than those of untreated plants.

TDZ, a synthetic version of a naturally occurring plant compound known as a cytokinin, is not new.

But preliminary studies with cut flowers, reported by Reid and co-researchers in 2000, were the first to demonstrate the value of TDZ for a commercial floricultural species -- in that case, alstroemeria.

The cyclamen experiments conducted by Jiang and collaborators are the first to show the leaf-saving and blossom-boosting effects of TDZ with potted floricultural plants, said an ARS release.

Jiang and colleagues reported some of their TDZ findings in Postharvest Biology and Technology earlier this year, and in Acta Horticulture in 2009.

 
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