Little is known about the factors controlling the efficiency of vegetative propagation by cuttings in tropical woody species. Caryocar brasiliense, an endemic fruit tree of the Cerrado biome, shows great potential for domestication through this technique. This study examined anatomical and physiological aspects related to the effects of the cultivation environment of the stock plants and the timing of wounding at the base of cuttings on the success of propagation. Stock plants were cultivated under full sunlight, shade netting, and greenhouse conditions, while cuttings were wounded at their bases at 0, 7, and 14 days after cutting. Rooting, morphoanatomy, and physiology of both stock plants and cuttings were evaluated, together with the ontogeny of adventitious roots. Greenhouse cultivation promoted greater growth, higher photosynthetic efficiency, and increased carbohydrate concentrations, as well as reduced lignification and phenolic compound accumulation in the cortical region. The phytohormones indole-3-acetic acid and jasmonic acid, together with peroxidase enzyme activity and the ratios of indole-3-acetic acid to 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid, peroxidase, and abscisic acid, showed strong positive correlations with rooting, whereas abscisic acid and zeatin showed negative correlations. Cultivation under 70 % shading and wounding applied seven days after cutting favored adventitious root formation. Adventitious root ontogeny in C. brasiliense is multisite, originating from the vascular cambium, phloem, cortex, and callus, depending on the cutting's origin in relation to the stock plant's cultivation environment. These findings provide insights into optimizing the propagation of C. brasiliense for domestication and conservation purposes.
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