Grafting for Disease Resistance
By S. King, A. Davis, Wenge Liu, A. Levi. 2008
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The primary purpose of grafting vegetables worldwide has been to provide resistance to soilborne diseases. The potential loss of methyl bromide as a soil fumigant combined with pathogen resistance to commonly used pesticides will make resistance to soilborne pathogens even more important in the future. The major disease problems addressed by grafting include fusarium wilt, bacterial wilt, verticillium wilt, monosporascus root rot, and nematodes. Grafting has also been shown in some instances to increase tolerance to foliar fungal diseases, viruses, and insects. If the area devoted to grafting increases in the future, there will likely be a shift in the soil microbial environment that could lead to the development of new diseases or changes in the pathogen population of current diseases. This shift in pathogen populations could lead to the development of new diseases or the re-emergence of previously controlled diseases. Although grafting has been demonstrated to control many common diseases, the ultimate success will likely depend on how well we monitor for changes in pathogen populations and other unexpected consequences.
Subfields: Cell Biology, Plant Science
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- Fusarium Wilt of Watermelon: 120 Years of Research (2014, background): “And this is likely to remain the case; at least until the use of methyl bromide is mostly eliminated (King et al. 2008).”
- Eggplant relatives as sources of variation for developing new rootstocks: Effects of grafting on eggplant yield and fruit apparent quality and composition (2011, background): “Lack of cultivars tolerant or resistant to increasingly important soil biotic and abiotic stresses, together with the prohibition of the use of methyl bromide for soil disinfestations, have led to a worldwide renewed interest in vegetable crops grafting (Bletsos, 2005; Davis et al., 2008a,b; King et”
- Tomato Grafting: A Global Perspective (2017, background): “, 2012), and has been proposed for openfield and protected cultivation (King et al., 2008).”
- Influence of rootstock on vegetative growth, fruit yield and quality in ‘Cuore di Bue’, an heirloom tomato (2010, background): “In this context, grafting is proposed as an effective and environmentally sustainable technique to provide improved resistance and/or tolerance to soil-borne diseases, nematodes, bacterial wilt, and viruses (King et al., 2008).”