METHODS OF INHIBITING DESICCATION OF CUTTINGS REMOVED FROM ORNAMENTAL PLANTS

摘要

Disclosed are methods of inhibiting desiccation of cuttings from ornamental plants, methods of harvesting cuttings from ornamental plants, methods of promoting early flowering of ornamental plants, and methods of enchancing the longevity of flower blooms on ornmental plant cuttings. The ornamental plants can be trangenic plants which express a heterologous hypersensitive response elicitor protien or polypeptide or the ornamental plants can be treated via topical application with a hypersensitive response elicitor protein or polypeptide. Alternatively, cuttings fro the ornamental plant can be treated with a hypersensitive response elicitor protein or polypeptide, independent of any treatment provided to the ornamental plant from which the cutting is removed.