As used in this subpart:

1. (1) “Board” means the State Plant Board;
2. (2) “Blackberry” means cultivated Rubus species and related plants that are considered blackberry botanically;
3. (3) “Cane cutting” means a cane section of two (2) or more nodes or buds (length four to six inches (4 – 6 in.) to be transplanted to produce a plant;
4. (4) “Crown” means the persistent (perennial) base of the plant, the junction between canes and roots (some varieties have buds that arise primarily from the crown);
5. (5) “Director” means the director of the State Plant Board or his or her duly appointed representative;
6. (6) “Hardwood cutting” means taken from a mature woody stem for the purpose of propagation;
7. (7) “Indicator plant” means any herbaceous or woody plant used to index or determine virus infection;
8. (8) “Indexing” means a procedure to determine virus or other pathogen infection by inoculation from the plant to be tested to an indicator plant (grafted onto plant to be tested) or by any other approved method;
9. (9) “Mericlones” means plants clonally propagated from a single meristem tip;

10. (10)

    1. (A) “Micropropagation” means plant multiplication in vitro.
    2. (B) Blackberry is propagated in tissue culture by aseptic transfer of meristem tip cultures to produce nuclear stocks;
11. (11) “Nodal cutting” means a cane cutting with a single node to produce a plant;
12. (12) “One-year-old plants” means well rooted plants that have developed during one growing season;
13. (13) “Primocane (succulent plants)” means the current season's growth that develops from root or basal crown buds;
14. (14) “Root cuttings” means a root section with one (1) or more buds;
15. (15) “Softwood cutting” means a cutting taken from a green, immature, actively growing stem of a woody plant during spring or early summer for the purpose of propagation;
16. (16) “Succulent plant” means a small, actively growing plant that is developing from root buds, not having passed through a dormant period;

17. (17)

    1. (A) “Virus infected (affected)” means presence of a virus or viruses or yellows disease agent in a plant or plant part.
    2. (B) The word "virus" shall be used hereafter to include yellows disease; and
18. (18) “Virus-like” means a disorder of genetic or nontransmissible origin, or a graft-transmissible disorder resembling a virus disease, including but not limited to diseases caused by viroids and phytoplasmas.