Vegetable Grafting: Principles and Practices

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780648979
• ISBN13: 9781780648972
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Cab International
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.7"