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Vegetable Grafting as a Tool to Improve Drought Resistance and Water Use Efficiency

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Title Vegetable Grafting as a Tool to Improve Drought Resistance and Water Use Efficiency
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Creator P. Kumar, Y. Rouphael, M. Cardarelli and G. Colla
 
Subject Vegetable grafting,antioxidative defense system, Cucurbitaceae, molecular mechanism, root–shoot interaction, rootstock, Solanaceae, water stress
 
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Drought is one of the most prevalent limiting factors causing considerable losses in
crop productivity, inflicting economic as well as nutritional insecurity. One of the greatest
challenges faced by the scientific community in the next few years is to minimize the yield
losses caused by drought. Drought resistance is a complex quantitative trait controlled
by many genes. Thus, introgression of drought resistance traits into high yielding
genotypes has been a challenge to plant breeders. Vegetable grafting using rootstocks
has emerged as a rapid tool in tailoring plants to better adapt to suboptimal growing
conditions. This has induced changes in shoot physiology. Grafting applications have
expanded mainly in Solanaceous crops and cucurbits, which are commonly grown in
arid and semi-arid areas characterized by long drought periods. The current review gives
an overview of the recent scientific literature on root-shoot interaction and rootstockdriven
alteration of growth, yield, and fruit quality in grafted vegetable plants under
drought stress. Further, we elucidate the drought resistance mechanisms of grafted
vegetables at the morpho-physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels.
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Date 2018-11-13T11:49:24Z
2018-11-13T11:49:24Z
2017-06-30
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Kumar P, Rouphael Y, Cardarelli M and Colla G (2017) Vegetable Grafting as a Tool to Improve Drought Resistance and Water Use Efficiency. Front. Plant Sci. 8:1130. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01130
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/10977
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Frontiers Media, Switzerland