Vegetable Grafting For Healthier Plants And Better Yields

Vegetable Grafting For Healthier Plants And Better Yields Piedmont Introduction to vegetable grafting. for many, when we hear about grafted plants we may think of trees. grafting has been used in tree fruit and nut production for many years, with great success. though the practice of grafting is a relatively new technique in the vegetable world, it has been utilized for centuries (kubota, et al., 2016). Grafting creates a new plant by physically combining two plants with different genetic backgrounds. it is commercially practiced in solanaceous and cucurbitaceous vegetables. currently, this technique is widely adopted in the major vegetable growing tracts of the world for the management of biotic and abiotic stresses. the technique mainly relies on the resistant trait offered by the rootstock.

Vegetable Grafting For Healthier Plants And Better Yields Piedmont This book provides comprehensive, current scientific and applied practical knowledge on vegetable grafting, a method gaining considerable interest that is used to protect crops from soil borne diseases, abiotic stress and to enhance growth yield. though the benefits of using grafted transplants are now fully recognized worldwide, understanding. Louws, 2008). in general, the overall health of plants may be promoted as plant vigor and growth increases with the use of selected root stocks. grafting as an innovative method for overcoming abiotic stress and improv ing plant growth, fruit yield and quality even under low or no disease pressure, plant growth can be considerably improved espe. Grafting has become an imperative for intensive vegetable production since chlorofluorocarbon based soil fumigants were banned from use on grounds of environmental protection. compelled by this development, research into rootstock–scion interaction has broadened the potential applications of grafting in the vegetable industry beyond aspects. Grafting can be used to protect plants from thermal shock and help plants perform even better in terms of yield due to the associated physiological changes in the grafted plant (rivero et al. 2003a). vegetable crops are highly sensitive to both low and high temperatures.