Chrysanthemum commonly known as Gul-e-Daudi or
Autumn Queen belongs to the family Compositeae
(Asteraceae) (Arora, 1990). It is highly valued as a cut
flower worldwide with its diverse floral types and colors
(Teixeira da Silva, 2003). It is globally an important cut
flower and pot plant species usually cultivated by vegetative
cuttings (Jaime and Teixeiria, 2004). It is generally
propagated using suckers and terminal cuttings (Rout
and Das, 1997). This approach, however, is inadequate
to attain fast multiplication rate, as these conventional
propagating methods are very slow, time consuming and
tiring. Secondly, cuttings obtained repeatedly from mother
plants may be subjected to any virus infection and
degeneration, thereby increasing production costs (Hahn
et al., 1998).