Vegetable Grafting: A Novel Technique to Enhance Yield and Quality in Vegetable Crops

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Vegetable Grafting: A Novel Technique to Enhance Yield and Quality in Vegetable Crops

Jayanth S.

Dept. of Vegetable Science, ASPEE College of Horticulrure and Forestry, NAU, Navsari, Vejalpore, Gujarat (396 450), India

Navya Vishweshwar Bhat^*

Dept. of Fruit Science and Horticulture Technology, OUAT, Surya Nagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (751 003), India

DOI: NIL

Keywords: Grafting, Quality, Stress, Yield

Abstract

Vegetable cultivation is seriously affected by the tremendous increase in population causing shrinkage of cultivable land and biotic and abiotic stresses due to changing climate. Vegetable grafting is a novel technique to develop resistant and superior quality vegetables through the union of scion of desirable quality with the rootstock of desirable tolerance level. To attain success in vegetable grafting a potential rootstock that is compatible and appropriate to impart tolerance should be selected which is genotype specific. Furthermore, the grafted plants are placed in healing chamber with high RH of 80-95 % at 25-30 °C and also are hardened before transplanting. An increase in yield upto 80% in Solanaceae and up to 60-90 % in cucurbits has been witnessed through vegetable grafting. Though vegetable grafting is labour and skill demanding, it has emerged as a successful technique to withstand various stresses even nematode infestation which is otherwise not easily controlled.