Data on the rootability of Parkia biglobosa using pure honey, Coconut Water and Moringa Leaf Extract as an alternative hormones

The data article contains the experimental data and figures on the number of rooted cuttings, number of cuttings with callus, cutting mortality and root length of Parkia biglobosa cuttings. The investigated data are related to the research article “Effects of alternative hormones on the rootability of Parkia biglobosa.” (Dunsin et al., 2014) [1]. In the experimental data, number of rooted cuttings, number of cuttings with callus, number of cuttings with mortality, total number of roots, total root length of cuttings and length of longest root of cuttings data employing alternative hormone (Pure Honey, Coconut Water, Moringa Leaf Extract) on the semi-hardwood stem cutting of Parkia biglobosa have been exhibited. The data would be useful to researchers finding alternate growth and rooting hormones that are cost friendly and for vegetative propagation during enrichment planting program of important tree crops that are difficult to propagate via seeds.


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The data article contains the experimental data and figures on the number of rooted cuttings, number of cuttings with callus, cutting mortality and root length of Parkia biglobosa cuttings. The investigated data are related to the research article "Effects of alternative hormones on the rootability of Parkia biglobosa." (Dunsin et al., 2014) [1]. In the experimental data, number of rooted cuttings, number of cuttings with callus, number of cuttings with mortality, total number of roots, total root length of cuttings and length of longest root of cuttings data employing alternative hormone (Pure Honey, Coconut Water, Moringa Leaf Extract) on the semihardwood stem cutting of Parkia biglobosa have been exhibited. The data would be useful to researchers finding alternate growth and rooting hormones that are cost friendly and for vegetative propagation during enrichment planting program of important tree crops that are difficult to propagate via seeds.
& Value of the data Data showed that the rooting ability of Parkia biglobosa was successful with the application of alternative hormones that would be an innovative data compared to other researchers.
The data can be used as a baseline for vegetative propagation of other permanent tree crops that are difficult to propagate via seeds using alternative hormone.
Investigated data are useful to the researchers working in plant biotechnology, plant physiology, forestry and biochemistry.

Data
Data in Figs. 1-3 describe the effect of alternative hormones treatment on number of rooted cuttings, callus formation and mortality of Parkia biglobosa semi-hardwood cuttings after 28 days of propagation (Figs. 1-3). In Figs. 1 and 2 data, root number and callus formation was influenced by Coconut Water which was supported by the work of Leakey [2]. who noted that, the cuttings that have high level of auxins and cytokinins have higher percentage of rootability. Fig. 3 shows the motility rate of the cuttings. Data in Table 1 explored the number of roots per cutting, total root length and average root length of cuttings from semi-hard wood of parkia biglobosa.

Site description and treatments
An experiment was carried out at Landmark University Teaching and Research Farm Omu-aran, Kwara inside a three polypropagator rooting chambers fabricated following the design described by Leakey et al. [2] from February 2014 to April 2015. The study area is located at latitude 8°12' N and Longitude 5°08' E, with altitude of 506 m above sea level of the Guinea savannah zone of Nigeria. Vigorous and disease free cuttings were taken from the mother tree of Parkia biglobosa in Landmark University Farm area. All cuttings materials were taken from a single mother tree early in the morning, with the aid of a sterile secateurs, cuttings were separated to prevent the xylem from being crushed, given it a very smooth surface and prevent microbial infection. The stem cuttings obtained were semi-hardwood cutting of uniform diameter and length of 15 cm in an angle of 45°with at least 2 buds on each stem and all leaves were removed to reduce evaporation from the cuttings.

Statistical analysis
The data collected was analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and the means were separated using Least Significant Difference (LSD).