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Vegetable Grafting : Principles and Practices.

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colla, Giuseppe.
Other Authors: Pérez-Alfocea, Francisco., Schwarz, Dietmar., Albacete, Alfonso., Nawaz, M. A., Bebeli, Penelope J., Ben-Hur, Meni., Bie, Zhilong., Calatayud, Angeles., Cohen, Roni.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : CAB International, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
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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 Genetic Resources for Rootstock Breeding
  • 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
  • 3.7 Transgenic Rootstocks
  • 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
  • 8.4 Biophysiological Processes Affecting Fruit Quality
  • 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 Recommendations for the Use of Grafted Plants in Greenhouses: the Case of The Netherlands
  • 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 Cover.

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