Vegetable Grafting: Principles and Practices - Hardcover

 
9781780648972: Vegetable Grafting: Principles and Practices
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1780648979 ISBN 13: 9781780648972
Publisher: CABI Publishing, 2017

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.

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About the Authors

Giuseppe Colla is with DAFNE, Italy.

Dietmar Schwarz is with Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Germany.

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Publisher
CABI Publishing
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1780648979
ISBN 13 
9781780648972
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
298
Editor
Colla . Giuseppe, Perez-Alfocea Francisco, Schwarz . Dietmar