Abstract
The rooting ability of cuttings, collected from micropropagated and severely pruned stock plants of three Japanese persimmon cultivars, was investigated. The leaf-bud softwood cuttings from micropropagated stock plants of all three cultivars rooted well. The rooting percentages of the cuttings from micropropagated 'Jiro' and 'Nishimurawase' stock plants were as high as those from root suckers ; those of cuttings from 'Hiratanenashi' and 'Jiro' stock plants, grafted on seedlings and severely pruned, were low. Hardwood cuttings from the mounded micropropagated stock plants rooted well ; their rooting percentage was similar to that from the mounded root suckers of 'Nishimurawase'. However, cuttings from the mounded stock plants, grafted on seedlings, failed to root.
