In recent years, the epicotyl grafting, technique is gaining popularity in propagation of mango. The plants produced by this method are found to be uniform, healthy and requiring less area for propagation and ultimately cheaper in cost. The cost of production of seedling rootstock is minimized to a great extent. In order to meet the growing demands for plant material, it was felt necessary to standardize epicotyl grafting in commercial mango cultivars like Dashehari, Langra, Amrapali and Mallika. Therandom seedling (open-pollinated) rootstocks of uniform height, thickness and size and age (8-10 days old) germinated in polybag were selected for grafting on the day of grafting, the scion shoots 1-2 months old having 0.4 cm thickness and 8 cm length and free from pest and diseases were selected from the mother trees. During August, 15 wedge grafts of each of 4 cultivars were prepared by following the method suggested by Majumder and Rathore (3). The grafts were prepared in poly bags and kept in openfor observations. The success of grafts and other growth parameters were recorded at monthly intervals and final survival was recorded after six months of grafting.
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