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20 May Enhancement of gladiolus flower vase life with sodium nitroprusside treatment

 ग्लेडियोलस फूल के फूलदान जीवन में वृद्धि के लि‍ए सोडियम नाइट्रोप्रससाइड का उपचार The importance of flowers in socio-cultural and religious life of the Indian people can hardly be exaggerated. Though flower cultivation has been practiced in India since time immemorial, floriculture has blossomed into a viable and profitable business only in recent years. Considering the potential of this sector in generating income and employment opportunities, promoting greater involvement of women and enhancement of exports, this has been identified as an extreme focus area for export by Government of India. Flowers require sincere, patient, soft, affectionate as well as expert handling. All cut flowers are destined to die, and the challenge for postharvest researchers is to slow the processes controlling flower death to enable cut flowers to reach distant markets with a display life. Gladiolus (Gladiolus species) is very much liked for its majestic spikes containing attractive, elegant and delicate florets. Gladiolus have five stages of flower development viz., bud stage (colour visible), half-open stage, fully-open stage, incipient senescent stage and finally senescence stage. These florets open in sequence over a longer duration and hence have a good keeping quality of cut spikes. There is a wide range of colours- self or bicolour with or without central mark varying from white to dark. Normally, gladiolus...