茶树无性繁殖是我国劳动人民的伟大创造。1956年福建省茶叶科学工作者总结成为较系统的经验,先后在全国各茶区普遍推广,并且在实践中得到了进一步的发展。解放后,各主产茶省都在开展无性系品种的选育工作,特别在五十年代开始推广短穗扦插技术后.由于它具有凡殖材料省,发根快,成活多,方法简便及成本低廉等优点,大大促进了茶树育种的开展。据1979年初步统计,全国新育成的茶树品种有50余个,绝大多数为无性系。 Clonal propagation of tea tree is a great creation of our working people. In 1956, tea science workers in Fujian Province summed up to become more systematic experience, which was popularized in various tea areas across the country in succession and further developed in practice. After the liberation, the main tea producing provinces are carrying out the breeding of clonal varieties, especially since the beginning of the promotion of short ear cuttings in the 1950s. Since it has the province of fertile materials, hair root fast, more live, method is simple and Low cost and other advantages, greatly promoted the development of tea tree breeding. According to preliminary statistics in 1979, more than 50 new varieties of tea trees have been bred nationwide, the vast majority of which are clones.