Vegetable Grafting – A Tool to Improve Vegetable Productivity

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com vegetables and flowers. Practicing of grafting in vegetable crops is an exclusive tool in East Asia to manage various vulnerable issues to the intensive vegetable production. In this regard, the first scientific report of vegetable grafting was published during late 1920 in Japan Journal of Horticulture [1]. This study was designed to control soil borne disease especially fusarium and to improve crop productivity in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) by grafting the seedlings onto squash rootstock (Cucurbita moschata). After this scientific documentation, grafting in vegetables particularly in cucurbits started scattering from Japan to other neighboring countries like Korea, China etc. and initiated to manage soil borne diseases especially Fusarium [2]. Subsequently, the production of watermelon grafted seedlings at commercial level started in early 1930s in Japan [3].