Tillering
Under tillering (English: tillering, French: tallage) is the branching on the stem base, which is particularly common in grasses occurs (Poaceae). Tilling leads, for example, to a fruit developing into a plant with many blooming sprouts.
The tillering consists in the formation of side shoots, which start from basal, usually underground nodes , usually from the one that is closest to the surface of the earth. The side shoots resulting from the tillering reach the same height in the grain and bloom at the same time as the main shoot. The tillering capacity, i.e. the number of side shoots per plant, is variable and depends on the species. In the case of willow or lawn grasses, tillering depends on the intensity of use; it increases with the frequency of cutting. In perennial grasses, the side shoots developed through tillering usually only bloom later than the primary shoot. Perennial pasture grasses can develop clump-like root stocks.
In the phenology of cereal plants according to the BBCH code , tillering is defined as the third stage of development, after germination and leaf development of the first leaves , the following stage is shooting .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Wagenitz : Dictionary of Botany. Morphology, anatomy, taxonomy, evolution. 2nd, expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-937872-94-0 , p. 39.
- ↑ DN Prjanischnikow: Special crop production: The cultivation of agricultural crops. Springer-Verlag, 2013. ISBN 9783642991226 . P. 218.
- ^ Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (editor): Development stages of monocotyledon and dicotyledon plants. BBCH monograph. ( Memento from April 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive )