Vegetable Grafting (Ο εμβολιασμός των λαχανικών - έκδοση στα αγγλικά)

Vegetable Grafting
Principles and Practices

This book provides comprehensive, current scientific and applied practical knowledge on vegetable grafting, a method gaining considerable interest that is used to protect crops from soil-borne diseases, abiotic stress and to enhance growth/yield. Though the benefits of using grafted transplants are now fully recognized worldwide, understanding the rootstock-scion interactions under variable environmental pressures remains vital for grafting-mediated crop improvement. In this book the authors attend to this need and explain the reasons for, and methods and applications of, grafting.

Vegetable Grafting: Principles and Practices covers:
• rootstock breeding, signalling, and physiological and molecular mechanisms involved in grafting;
• beneficial effects of grafting including reducing disease damage and abiotic stress;
• side effects relating to the impact of grafting on fruit quality; and
• practical applications and speciality crops.

Including high-quality colour images and written by an international team of expert authors, this book provides up-to-date scientific data and is also concerned with translating science to the field. It is an essential resource for researchers, advanced technicians, practitioners and extension workers.

Table of Contents
•    5: Physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying graft compatibility
•    5.1: Introduction
•    5.2: Anatomical and physiological steps during graft union development
•    5.3: Role of secondary metabolites at the interface in graft incompatibility
•    5.4: Cell-to-cell communication between graft partners
•    5.5: Understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in graft union formation and compatibility.
•    5.6: Methods for examining graft union development and compatibility
•    5.7: Conclusions and future perspectives
•    6: Grafting as agro-technology for reducing disease damage
•    6.1: Introduction
•    6.2: The first step: Managing diseases in the nursery
•    6.3: Disease spread from the nursery to the field, the example of powdery mildew of watermelons
•    6.4: Intra- and interspecific grafting and their relations to diseases
•    6.5: Biotic or abiotic stress? Different responses of grafted plants to environmental conditions, the case of "physiological wilt", and germplasm selection for rational breeding
•    6.6: Grafted plants' response to nematodes
•    6.7: Commercial rootstocks and unknown genetics
•    6.8: Different mechanisms involved in disease resistance induced by grafting
•    6.9: Conclusions
•    4.3: Conclusions
•    4.2: Current knowledge of ionic and chemical signalling between rootstock and scion
•    4.1: Introduction
•    4: Rootstock-scion signalling: key factors mediating scion performance
•    3.8: Rootstock registration and commercialization
•    3.7: Transgenic rootstocks
•    3.6: Selection of improved rootstocks
•    3.5: Grafting as a tool for genetic hybridisation and chimera production
•    3.4: Deploying genetic diversity for rootstocks
•    3.3: Developing stable, core collections of germplasm for breeding
•    3.2: Stacking traits: meiosis or grafting or both?
•    3.1: Introduction
•    3: Rootstock breeding: current practices and future technologies
•    2.5: Concluding remarks
•    2.4: Germplasm collection of other plant families
•    2.3: Current usage of genetic material in rootstocks
•    2.2: Genebank collections
•    2.1: Genetic diversity
•    2: Genetic resources for rootstock breeding
•    1.4: Conclusions
•    1.3: Problems associated with vegetable grafting
•    1.2: The process of vegetable grafting
•    1.1: Importance and use of vegetable grafting
•    1: Introduction to vegetable grafting
•    7: Grafting as a tool to tolerate abiotic stress
•    7.1: Introduction
•    7.2: Temperature stress
•    7.3: Salinity stress
•    7.4: Nutrient stress
•    7.5: Stress induced by heavy metals and metalloids
•    7.6: Stress by adverse soil pH
•    7.7: Drought and flood stress
•    7.8: Conclusions
•    8: Quality of grafted vegetables
•    8.1: What is quality?
•    8.2: Rootstock effects on fruit quality
•    8.3: Effects of grafting on ripening and postharvest behaviour
•    8.4: Bio-physiological processes affecting fruit quality
•    8.5: Conclusion and perspectives
•    9: Practical applications and speciality crops
•    9.1: Establishment of grafted transplant under Mediterranean climate conditions
•    9.2: Recommendations for the use of grafted plants in greenhouses. The case of the Netherlands
•    9.3: Role of grafting in speciality crops
•    9.4: Conclusions and future perspective of vegetable grafting
•    10: Index