Introduction
Anatolia is the main centre of Salvia species in Asia, and its 89 species, half of which are endemic, were determined in Anatolia’s natural vegetation. Salvia fruticosa Mill., being one of the commercial species with its essential oil that is over %1, spreads in Mediterranean mainly in Turkey and Greece [1]-[4]. In Turkey, the leaves of Anatolian sage (Salvia fruticosa Mill.) are used instead of medical sage (Salvia officinals L.). Its leaves resemble medical sage’s leaves in terms of chemical structure and treatment effects. Its essential oil has gastric, gastral, diuretic and saccharic effects. Externally, it can be used as wound healer and antiseptic [5] and [6]. In addition to these features, it is informed that it is among the plants of sage having the best antioxidant activity [7]. Along with internal consumption, sage (Salvia fruticosa Mill.) is gathered from natural vegetation from the west of Turkey and is exported being dry [8]. Related to the increasing export, efforts for the plant’s production have increased in recent years. Sage production can be made by the separation of secondary stems growing from seed, cutting and roots. Being an effective method in producing many plants, vegetative production with cuttings is seen as an attractive method for plant production industry [9]. Cuttings to which hormone is applied generally root much more rapidly than those to which hormones is not applied and construct a stronger root system, thus moulding in the lower parts of cuttings diminishes with accelerating of rooting. In their study they conducted with different species of Lamiaceae family, [10] detected the highest root height and root number values in Salvia fruticosa species in 3000 ppm IBA application for a period of 5 minutes. In this study, it was aimed at determining the effects of different hormones and hormone doses in S. fruticosa cuttings upon the growth of seedling root.