A Water Stress–Tolerant Pepper Rootstock Improves the Behavior of Pepper Plants under Deficit Irrigation through Root Biomass Distribution and Physiological Adaptation

The use of rootstocks tolerant to water stress in pepper crops is a complementary technique for saving irrigation without affecting yields by means particular rootstock physiological traits, which changes the scion’s perception stress. present study aimed analyze morphological and adaptation ‘Cuerno’ cultivar grafted onto NIBER® subjected capacitance sensor-based deficit irrigation. stomatal conductance, relative content leaf potential parameters were used confirm degree crop Leaf dry weight root volume higher plants under control treatment conditions. Total fresh biomass percentage 24% 33% higher, respectively, than ungrafted plants. both conditions had marketable production obtained using explained reduced blossom-end rot incidence.