CUTTING ABILITY AND GROWTH OF THREE COVER CROPS [ ARACHIS PINTOI (L.) KRAPOV & W.C. GREG. ARACHIS REPENS (L.) HANDRO DESMODIUMADSCENDENS (SW.) DC.] IN NURSERY
Authors:   Teaching and Research Unit on Plant Physiology and Pathologies, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Agriculture and Developmentof Biological Resources, Department of Biosciences, University FelixHouphouet-Boigny, 22 P.O. Box 582 Abidjan 22, Cote dIvoire., Yves Gilchrist Kouadio Edouard , Fernand Jean-Martial Kassi Koffi ,   Teaching and Research Unit on Plant Physiology and Pathologies, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Agriculture and Developmentof Biological Resources, Department of Biosciences, University FelixHouphouet-Boigny, 22 P.O. Box 582 Abidjan 22, Cote dIvoire., Cherif Mamadou ,   Teaching and Research Unit on Plant Physiology and Pathologies, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Agriculture and Developmentof Biological Resources, Department of Biosciences, University FelixHouphouet-Boigny, 22 P.O. Box 582 Abidjan 22, Cote dIvoire., Frederic Kouame Kra ,   National Centre of Floristic, University Felix Houphouet-Boigny, 22 P.O. Box 582 Abidjan 22, Cote dIvoire., Didier Kouame Konan ,   Teaching and Research Unit on Plant Physiology and Pathologies, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Agriculture and Developmentof Biological Resources, Department of Biosciences, University FelixHouphouet-Boigny, 22 P.O. Box 582 Abidjan 22, Cote dIvoire., Tuo Seydou ,   Teaching and Research Unit on Plant Physiology and Pathologies, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Agriculture and Developmentof Biological Resources, Department of Biosciences, University FelixHouphouet-Boigny, 22 P.O. Box 582 Abidjan 22, Cote dIvoire., Camara Brahima ,   Teaching and Research Unit on Plant Physiology and Pathologies, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Agriculture and Developmentof Biological Resources, Department of Biosciences, University FelixHouphouet-Boigny, 22 P.O. Box 582 Abidjan 22, Cote dIvoire., Dade Georges Elisee Amari Ler-Nogn ,   Teaching and Research Unit on Plant Physiology and Pathologies, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Agriculture and Developmentof Biological Resources, Department of Biosciences, University FelixHouphouet-Boigny, 22 P.O. Box 582 Abidjan 22, Cote dIvoire., Emmanuel Dick Acka ,   Teaching and Research Unit on Plant Physiology and Pathologies, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Agriculture and Developmentof Biological Resources, Department of Biosciences, University FelixHouphouet-Boigny, 22 P.O. Box 582 Abidjan 22, Cote dIvoire.
Published: August 2021

In the search for alternative practices to the excessive use of herbicides for control of weediness, strategies based on the domestication and multiplication of cover crops are more and more explored. The propagation by cuttingof these plants have been the subject of numerous studies because of unavailability andcost-prohibitive of their seeds. The aim of this study was to compare the growthandcuttingabilityofA. repens, A. pintoÃƒÂƒÃ‚ÂƒÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â¯ and D.adscendens. These cover plants were propagated by cutting in coir and put on raised bamboo clays with shade, in greenhouse. For each specie, parameters of vegetative recovery and growth were assessed. The results reported that recovery abilities were most important toA. pintoÃƒÂƒÃ‚ÂƒÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â¯ (89.35%) and A. repens (86.39%). However, plant growth was better for D. adscendens, with a vigour index more than double with that ofboth theother species. The results obtained show that these three cover crop species are relatively easy to propagate by cutting in nursery.D. adscendens and A. repens are potentially usable in large scaleas cover cropstocontrol weeds in agricultural parcels.