Vegetable Grafting For Healthier Plants And Better Yields Piedmont

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 Plant grafting is one of the most valuable tools we have in vegetable production against soil borne diseases and stresses. however, the benefits from using grafted plants are more; higher yields under stressful conditions, extension of the cultivation period, lower use of fertilizers and agrochemicals, broad use of phytogenetic resources as. In addition to using grafting to improve horticultural production and scientifically to characterize rootstock and scion genotypes (), grafting has the potential to generate new species resulting from the local horizontal transfer of genetic material between the two genotypes of grafted plants (stegemann and bock, 2009; stegemann et al., 2012; fuentes et al., 2014; gurdon et al., 2016). 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.