Bamboo bonanza
with an increasing thrust on the bamboo sector on which the livelihood of millions depends, there has been amplified interest in evolving better techniques for bamboo propagation and cheaper alternatives to expensive planting material.
Recently, K C Koshy and B Gopakumar of the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (tbgri), Kerala, reported a new method for vegetative propagation of self-incompatible bamboos