Vegetable grafting : : principles and practices / / Giuseppe Colla, Department of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, University of Tuscia, Italy, Francisco Pérez-Alfocea, Department of Plant Nutrition, Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS), Consejo Superior de Investigacones Científicas (CSIC), Campus Universitario de Espinardo, Spain, Dietmar Schwarz, Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Germany.

• VerfasserIn: Colla, Giuseppe,
• Place / Publishing House: Wallingford, Oxfordshire ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : CABI,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 pages)

This book provides comprehensive and current scientific and practical knowledge on vegetable grafting, a method gaining considerable interest as an alternative to the use of fumigants to protect crops from soil-borne diseases.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Half Title -- Title-- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction to Vegetable Grafting -- 1.1 Importance and Use of Vegetable Grafting -- 1.1.1 Historical perspective -- 1.1.2 Purpose and scope -- 1.1.3 Growing areas and plantlet production -- 1.2 The Process of Vegetable Grafting -- 1.2.1 Selection of rootstock and scion cultivars -- 1.2.2 Overview of grafting methods -- 1.2.3 Preference of grafting method for different species -- 1.2.4 Post-graft healing environment -- 1.3 Problems Associated with Vegetable Grafting -- 1.4 Conclusions -- References -- 2.1 Genetic Diversity -- 2.1.1 Diversity in the Cucurbitaceae family -- 2.1.2 Diversity in the Solanaceae family -- 2.2 Gene Bank Collections -- 2.2.1 Cucurbitaceae -- 2.2.2 Solanaceae -- 2.3 Current Usage of Genetic Material in Rootstocks -- 2.3.1 Rootstocks for cucurbit production -- 2.3.2 Rootstocks for production of solanaceous crops -- 2.4 Germplasm Collections and Grafting in Other Plant Families -- 2.4.1 Cynara gafting -- 2.4.2 Phaseolous grafting -- 2.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 3 Rootstock Breeding: Current Practices and Future Technologies -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Stacking Traits: Meiosis or Grafting or Both? -- 3.3 Developing Stable Core Collections of Germplasm for Breeding -- 3.4 Deploying Genetic Diversity for Rootstocks -- 3.4.1 General principles -- 3.4.2 Use of Cucurbita F1 hybrids -- 3.4.3 Use of Solanum F1 hybrids -- 3.4.4 Interspecific hybrids and hybridization barriers -- 3.5 Grafting as a Tool for Genetic Hybridization and Chimera Production -- 3.5.1 Genetic hybridization: transfer of nuclear and organellar DNA between cells of the graft union -- 3.5.2 Use of grafting to generate chimeras -- 3.6 Selection of Improved Rootstocks. 3.6.1 Phenotypic selection -- 3.6.2 Marker-assisted Selection -- 3.8 Rootstock Registration and Commercialization -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4 Rootstock-scion Signalling: Key Factors Mediating Scion Performance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Current Knowledge of Ionic and Chemical Signalling Between Rootstock and Scion -- 4.2.1 Ionic signalling -- 4.2.2 Plant hormone signalling -- 4.2.3 Metabolite profile of the xylem sap: xylomics -- 4.2.4 Physical signalling -- 4.2.5 Proteins -- 4.2.6 Small RNAs -- 4.3 Conclusions -- References -- 5 Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Graft Compatibility -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Anatomical and Physiological Steps During Graft Union Development -- 5.2.1 Graft establishment between compatible and incompatible combinations -- 5.2.2 Translocation between grafted partners -- 5.3 Role of Secondary Metabolites at the Interface in Graft Incompatibility -- 5.4 Cell-to-cell Communication Between Graft Partners -- 5.4.1 Plant growth regulator and graft union formation -- 5.4.2 Cell-to-cell communication at the graft interface -- 5.5 Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Graft Union Formation and Compatibility -- 5.5.1 Genes differentially expressed during graft union formation -- 5.5.2 Genes differentially expressed between compatible and incompatible graft combinations -- 5.6 Methods for Examining Graft Union Development and Compatibility -- 5.6.1 In vitro techniques -- 5.6.2 Histological studies -- 5.6.3 Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging as a diagnostic technique -- 5.7 Conclusions -- References -- 6 Grafting as Agrotechnology for Reducing Disease Damage -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 First Step: Managing Diseases in the Nursery -- 6.2.1 Tobamovirus management: grafted cucurbits and cucumber green mottle mosaic virus: an example of risk and a solution. 6.2.2 Bacterial canker management: grafted tomatoes and an old nemesis -- 6.3 Disease Spread from the Nursery to the Field: the Example of Powdery Mildew of Watermelons -- 6.4 Intra- and Interspecific Grafting and their Relationship to Diseases -- 6.5 Biotic or Abiotic Stress? Different Responses of Grafted Plants to Environmental Conditions: the Case of 'Physiological Wilt' -- 6.6 Response of Grafted Plants to Nematodes -- 6.7 Commercial Rootstocks and Unknown Genetics -- 6.8 Different Mechanisms Involved in Disease Resistance Induced by Grafting -- 6.9 Conclusions -- References -- 7 Grafting as a Tool for Tolerance of Abiotic Stress -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Temperature Stress -- 7.2.1 Diminishing temperature constraints for vegetable production -- 7.2.2 Contribution of rootstocks to improved low- and high-temperature tolerance -- 7.2.3 Rootstock selection for improved temperature-stress tolerance -- 7.2.4 Cold- and heat-tolerant Cucurbitaceae and Solanaceae rootstocks -- 7.3 Salinity Stress -- 7.4 Nutrient Stress -- 7.4.1 Excessive nutrient availability -- 7.4.2 Deficient nutrient availability -- 7.5 Stress Induced by Metalloids and Heavy Metals -- 7.5.1 Boron -- 7.5.2 Heavy metals -- 7.6 Stress by Adverse Soil pH -- 7.7 Drought and Flood Stresses -- 7.7.1 Drought -- 7.7.2 Flooding and waterlogging -- 7.8 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 8 Quality of Grafted Vegetables -- 8.1 What is Quality? -- 8.2 Rootstock Effects on Fruit Quality -- 8.2.1 Appearance -- 8.2.2 Texture -- 8.2.3 Organoleptic compounds and relationship to sensory properties -- 8.2.4 Health-promoting substances -- 8.2.5 Contaminants -- 8.3 Effects of Grafting on Ripening and Postharvest Behaviour -- 8.5 Conclusions -- References -- 9 Practical Applications and Speciality Crops. 9.1 Establishment of Grafted Transplants under Mediterranean Climate Conditions -- 9.1.1 Factors affecting the establishment of grafted plants -- 9.1.2 Abiotic stress -- 9.1.3 Biotic stress -- 9.2.1 The grafting process -- 9.2.2 Cultivation system of grafted plants -- 9.2.3 Start of cultivation -- 9.2.4 Later phases in cultivation -- 9.3 Role of Grafting in Speciality Crops -- 9.3.1 Globe artichoke -- 9.3.2 Green bean -- 9.4 Conclusions and Future Perspectives on Vegetable Grafting Acknowledgements -- References -- Index -- Plates -- Back Cove.