Recent Advances in Horticultural Grafting—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 71
Special Issue Editor
Interests: vegetable grafting; graft healing; graft compatibility; rootstock–scion interaction; long distance signaling; grafted seedling
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Dear Colleagues,
Grafting is an asexual propagation technique that has been used in horticulture for many centuries, and it is being increasingly widely used today. The main purpose of grafting is to assist plants in the adaptation to biotic stress, such as resistance to soilborne disease, and abiotic stress conditions including drought, salinity, waterlogging, suboptimal temperatures, and mineral deficiency, and to modify plant architecture, induce precocious flowering and rejuvenate old perennial varieties. Grafting has also increasingly served as a tool to investigate the long-distance transport of molecules, which is an essential part of key biological processes. Although grafting plays a central role in the successful production of many horticultural crops, the underlying mechanisms of graft healing, compatibility, rootstock–scion interaction and stress tolerance remain largely unknown. In addition, knowledge on the grafted seedling production technique and rootstock breeding is also not sufficient.
This Special Issue is a natural continuation of our previous Special Issue titled “Recent Advances in Horticultural Grafting”. The main aim of this Special Issue is to publish papers focusing on recent scientific progress and innovation in horticultural grafting, from the perspectives of both practical horticulture and basic plant biology, such as grafted seedling production, rootstock breeding, graft healing, compatibility, rootstock–scion interaction, mechanisms for enhancing stress tolerance and fruit quality and yield. We strongly believe that this Special Issue will foster the development of the field of horticultural grafting.
Dr. Yuan Huang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant grafting
- rootstock breeding
- grafted seedling
- rootstock biotechnology
- graft healing
- graft compatibility/incompatibility
- rootstock–scion interaction
- long distance signaling
- biotic stress
- abiotic stress
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