Review Article Propagation of Jojoba, Simmondsia chinensis (Link) Schnneider: Constraints and Prospects

Propagation of Jojoba

Abstract

Jojoba being a dioecious plant has separate male and female plants. Propagation through sexual means i.e., from seed gives more than 50% male plants is a major constraint to being unproductive in future production. Plant sex needs 3-4 years to be identifiable when starts bearing fruit and delays fruiting. 90% of female plants are required when grown on a commercial scale to get a high yield. Being an allogamous species, plants originating from seeds showed huge variation among morphological and yield-related parameters is another constraint that can affect the commercial yield of jojoba. The success of growers and the industry of jojoba is directly dependent on the planting of genotypes that confer high yield and can be multiplied by asexual means via air layering, grafting, cuttings, and tissue culture to yield true-to-type plants is future prospect in jojoba productivity. Different methods of vegetative propagation and their efficiencies concerning jojoba are discussed and reviewed.