Vegetable Grafting: Principles and Practices

By: Alfonso Albacete and M A Nawaz and Penelope J Bebeli and Meni Ben-Hur and Zhilong Bie and Angeles Calatayud and Roni Cohen and Sara Cookson and J. Anja Dieleman and Ian C Dodd and Aviv Dombrovsky and Menahem Edelstein and Pilar Errea and Carmina Gisbert and Francesco Giuffrida and Yuan Huang and Jan Janse and Eyal Klein and Amnon Koren and Pradeep Kumar and Marios C. Kyriacou and Jung-Myung Lee and Cherubino Leonardi and Frank J. Louws and Isabel Mourão and Georgia Ntatsi and Gölgen B. Oztekin and Ivan Paponov and Maria Belen Pico and Ana Pina and Youssef Rouphael and Dimitrios Savvas and Andrew J Thompson and Allessandra Trinchera and Jan Henk Venema and Halit Yetisir

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Synopsis: 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 the rootstock-scion interactions under variable environmental pressures remains vital for grafting-mediated crop improvement. In this book the authors attend to this need and explain the reasons for, and methods and applications of, grafting. Vegetable Grafting: Principles and Practices covers: · rootstock breeding, signalling, and physiological and molecular mechanisms involved in grafting; · beneficial effects of grafting including reducing disease damage and abiotic stress; · side effects relating to the impact of grafting on fruit quality; and · practical applications and speciality crops. Including high-quality colour images and written by an international team of expert authors, this book provides up-to-date scientific data and is also concerned with translating science to the field. It is an essential resource for researchers, advanced technicians, practitioners and extension workers.