Effect of Budding Date and Benzyl Adenine on Budding Success Ratio of Clementine Mandarin

This study was conducted at the department of Horticulture College of Agriculture, University of Baghdad for the period 1/ 9/ 2002 to 15/ 1/ 2004. To study the effect of budding date and Benzyl adenine on bud take on Clemntine mandarin, using one year old sour orange seedling as a rootstock. Buds were dipped in Benzyl adenine and then kept in 4ºC and 20ºC for 24 hr. Budding carried out at autumn and spring season. البحث مستل من رسالة ماجستیر للباحث الثالث The experimental results shows that autumn budding significantly was superior then the spring budding in most characters specially the percentage of budding success, length of shoots, number of leaves/ plant, leaf area/ plant with 9%, 15.7%, 13.3%, 27.6% respectively .The treatments increased the percentage of budding and other vegetative characters as compared with the control, specially the treatment with 250 mg/ l Benzyl adenine and when the buds were kept in 4ºC for 24 hr, In which the highest percentage of budding success (82.21%) was recorded. The interaction between date of budding and the treatments significantly influenced the percentage of budding success and improving the vegetative characters.