Monitoring of the evaluation of winter garlic morphometry using chemical mutagens
Journal: Bulletin of the State Nikitsky Botanical Gardens
Year: 2019

The results of treatment of winter garlic that is grown in the Crimea with chemical mutagens are presented. The air bulbs (garlic bulbs) of the local population were treated with chemical mutagens of the first group (they are capable to transfer alkyd compounds to other molecules), namely, diethyl phosphate 0.025%, 0.05 and 0.1%, as well as dimethyl sulfate 0.025%, 0.04 and 0.08%. In the first year of harvest, cloves of garlic were divided into large Ø 2.5-3 cm, medium - from 1.5 to 2.5 cm and s