Rootstock resistance to Fusarium wilt and effect on watermelon fruit yield and quality

Yetışır, Halit; Sarı, Nebahat; Yücel, Seral

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“…'Crimstar' by an average of 14.6% and 22.0%, respectively, as compared to EGS. Contrarily to the our results, the previous results showed that fruit rinds of 'CrimsonTide' grafted on Lagenaria were significantly (21%) thicker (Yetişir et al, 2003), % thicker when 'Crimson Sweet' was grafted on Lagenaria (Alexopoulos et al, 2007), and 17% thicker in 'Ingrid' mini-watermelon grafted on Cucurbita rootstock (Proietti et al, 2008) as compared to their non-grafted counterparts.…”

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“…rootstocks decreased the total soluble solids content of watermelon fruits, but Salam et al (2002) reported a marked increase in the total soluble solids in grafted watermelons. Yetişir et al (2003) suggested that the total soluble solids and sugar content were greatly affected by grafting, albeit the results were dependent on the rootstock used. In addition, Davis et al (2008b) indicated in their review that watermelon maturity is often delayed in grafted fruit and that this difference in maturation probably causes additional contradictory reports in the literature.…”

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The effectiveness of growth cycles on improving fruit quality for grafted watermelon combinations

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“…Vigorous interspecific and L. siceraria rootstocks can improve yields significantly, which in genotypically large-fruited scions usually translates into a tendency for higher unit fruit weight, while in small-fruited cultivars it tends to increase the number of fruits per plant (Colla et al, 2006a; Alexopoulos et al, 2007; Cushman and Huan, 2008; Proietti et al, 2008; Soteriou and Kyriacou, 2014). Decrease in fruit weight against non-grafted control is usually an indicator of rootstock–scion incompatibility, while in compatible grafts maximum reported fruit weight increase approximates 55% (Yetisir and Sari, 2003; Yetisir et al, 2003; Huitrón et al, 2007; Cushman and Huan, 2008; Soteriou and Kyriacou, 2014). …”

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“…On the other hand, rind thickness is a morphological trait more responsive to grafting, and to cultural practice at large, as it relates to watermelon harvest maturity (Soteriou et al, 2014; Kyriacou et al, 2016). On commercial C. maxima × C. moschata and L. siceraria rootstocks, especially on landraces of the latter, thickening of watermelon rind is often observed (Yetisir et al, 2003; Alexopoulos et al, 2007; Proietti et al, 2008; Kyriacou and Soteriou, 2015). However, this has not been a ubiquitous effect across the above rootstocks, or with less common rootstocks such as C. moschata , Sicyos angulatus L., C. lanatus var.…”

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“…Notwithstanding the genotypic effect of the scion, rootstock effects on watermelon pulp firmness can be significant hence the choice of rootstock instrumental for improving fruit quality and postharvest life (Yetisir et al, 2003; Cushman and Huan, 2008; Bruton et al, 2009; Kyriacou and Soteriou, 2015). Inter-specific Cucurbita hybrid rootstocks most consistently increase watermelon pulp firmness in both diploid and triploid scions (Bruton et al, 2009; Huitrón et al, 2009; Soteriou et al, 2014; Soteriou and Kyriacou, 2015).…”

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Vegetable Grafting: The Implications of a Growing Agronomic Imperative for Vegetable Fruit Quality and Nutritive Value

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Grafting has become an imperative for intensive vegetable production since chlorofluorocarbon-based soil fumigants were banned from use on grounds of environmental protection. Compelled by this development, research into rootstock–scion interaction has broadened the potential applications of grafting in the vegetable industry beyond aspects of soil phytopathology. Grafting has been increasingly tapped for cultivation under adverse environs posing abiotic and biotic stresses to vegetable crops, thus enabling expansion of commercial production onto otherwise under-exploited land. Vigorous rootstocks have been employed not only in the open field but also under protected cultivation where increase in productivity improves distribution of infrastructural and energy costs. Applications of grafting have expanded mainly in two families: the Cucurbitaceae and the Solanaceae, both of which comprise major vegetable crops. As the main drives behind the expansion of vegetable grafting have been the resistance to soilborne pathogens, tolerance to abiotic stresses and increase in yields, rootstock selection and breeding have accordingly conformed to the prevailing demand for improving productivity, arguably at the expense of fruit quality. It is, however, compelling to assess the qualitative implications of this growing agronomic practice for human nutrition. Problems of impaired vegetable fruit quality have not infrequently been associated with the practice of grafting. Accordingly, the aim of the current review is to reassess how the practice of grafting and the prevalence of particular types of commercial rootstocks influence vegetable fruit quality and, partly, storability. Physical, sensorial and bioactive aspects of quality are examined with respect to grafting for watermelon, melon, cucumber, tomato, eggplant, and pepper. The physiological mechanisms at play which mediate rootstock effects on scion performance are discussed in interpreting the implications of grafting for the configuration of vegetable fruit physicochemical quality and nutritive value.

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How rootstock/scion combinations affect watermelon fruit quality after harvest?

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J Sci Food Agric

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Grafting of vegetable seedlings is a unique horticultural technology, practiced for more than five decades, aiming to overcome problems associated with intensive cultivation on limited arable land. Grafting can protect vegetables against soil‐borne diseases and nematodes; against abiotic stresses such as high or low temperatures, salinity, drought or excessive soil‐water content; and against elevated soil concentrations of heavy metals and organic pollutants. Watermelon is one of the most popular vegetables to be grafted, and more than 90% of the plants worldwide are commercially grafted. This mini review aims to summarize the latest available information about the effects of rootstock/scion combinations with respect to enhancing or impairing watermelon fruit‐quality. A better understand of the influence of rootstock/scion compatibility or incompatibility on fruit‐quality parameters will facilitate decision‐making by growers and direct breeding programs to produce high‐quality grafted fruits in a cost‐effective manner. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry

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Rootstock resistance to Fusarium wilt and effect on watermelon fruit yield and quality

Cited by 122 publications

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The effectiveness of growth cycles on improving fruit quality for grafted watermelon combinations

The effectiveness of growth cycles on improving fruit quality for grafted watermelon combinations

Vegetable Grafting: The Implications of a Growing Agronomic Imperative for Vegetable Fruit Quality and Nutritive Value

How rootstock/scion combinations affect watermelon fruit quality after harvest?

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