water and nutrient absorption by plants is one of the most conspicuous factors which seriously affect plant productivity. improving physical properties of soilless media and their water retaining capacity can improve plant's nutrient absorption, growth and subsequent yield. in this study, we tried to improve plant nutrient absorption through incorporation of hydrogel into growth media and ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Chilling results in a significant decrease in Rubisco content and increased generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cucumber (Cucumis sativus), a chilling-sensitive species. The role of roots in the regulation of the tolerance is unknown. Here, cucumber plants grafted onto figleaf gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia), a chilling-tolerant species were used to study the role of ...

in order to study the effect of rootstock, scion and some methods of grafting and budding to achieve the best methods of grafting in pomegranate, split factorial experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design in march 2013 in greenhouse at the agricultural college of vali-e-asr university of rafsanjan. factors included rootstock, scion, and methods of grafting and time of grafting. ...

Non-grafted tomato plants (Lycopersicon esculentum L. cv. Tmknvf2) and grafted tomato plants (L.esculentum L. cv. Tmknvf2¿L.esculentum L. cv. RX-335) were grown for 30 days at three different temperatures (10æC, 25æC and 35æC). In the leaves of these plants, the enzymatic activities of SOD, GPX, CAT, APX, DHAR and GR were analysed, as were the concentrations of total H2O2, ascorbate and glutath...

To determine if salt tolerance of grafted cucumber can be associated with the accumulation of organic solutes and inorganic solutes in the leaves and roots, a salt-sensitive cucumber cultivar Jinchun No. 2 (Cucumis sativus L.) was grafted onto the commercial salt-tolerant bottle gourd cultivar Chaofeng 8848 (Lagenaria siceraria Standl.). Grafted and ungrafted plants were grown in hydroponic sys...

My farm consists of 225 acres on hilly land in Lancaster County, PA. We grow a diversity of crops and our early tomatoes are grown in two acres of multi-bay high tunnels. I reluctantly was forced to fumigate in the tunnels due to problems with verticillium wilt (race 2). At my farm, we have looked at grafting to manage verticillium and other soilborne diseases in our tunnels, and have seen that...

Leaf senescence varies greatly among cotton cultivars, possibly due to their root characteristics, particularly the root-sourced cytokinins and abscisic acid (ABA). Early-senescence (K1) and late-senescence (K2) lines, were reciprocally or self-grafted to examine the effects of rootstock on leaf senescence and endogenous hormones in both leaves and xylem sap. The results indicate that the graft...

Grafting is a technique that may affect plant tolerance to iron chlorosis in plants cultivated for their fruit. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the tolerance of non-grafted quince seedlings and pear grafted onto quince plants cultivated in pots with alkaline soil. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse at the University of Cordoba, Spain, in pots (3 L) filled with a...

The effects of grafting on Na and Cl(-) uptake and distribution in plant tissues were quantified in a greenhouse experiment using six combinations of melon (Cucumis melo L. cv. Arava) and pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima Duchesne×Cucurbita moschata Duchesne cv. TZ-148): non-grafted, self-grafted, melons grafted on pumpkins, and pumpkins grafted on melons. Total Na concentration in shoots of plants wit...