Vegetable Grafting: Principles and Practices

• Main Author: Pérez-Alfocea, Francisco (auth)
• Other Authors: Colla, Giuseppe (auth), Schwarz, Dietmar (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: CABI 2017
• Subjects: Gardening: growing fruit & vegetables; Plant reproduction & propagation; Agricultural science; stress; crop quality; grafting; plant breeding; plant genetic resources; rootstock scion relationships; sustainability; vegetables; resistance; crop yield; root systems; stress response; fruits; vegetable crops; rootstocks; scions; compatibility
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Although the benefits of using grafted transplants are now fully recognized worldwide, the need to enlighten the scientific basis of rootstock-scion interactions under variable environmental pressures remains vital for extracting grafting-mediated crop improvement. This has prompted the COST (Europe...