Evaluating Morphological Growth, Yield, and Postharvest Fruit Quality of Cucumber (Cucumis Sativus L.) Grafted on Cucurbitaceous Rootstocks

Abstract

Grafting is a substitute technique to boost tolerance against abiotic stresses, which also diminish root syndromes from soil-borne pathogens and increase crop production. This piloted study evaluates the tongue grafting technique and investigates the influence of grafting hybrid cucumber (Kalam F1) scion onto local cucurbitaceous and hybrid rootstocks on plant morphology, fruit yield, nutrients concentration in different plant organs, and postharvest fruit quality during three seasons of 2017 to 2019, consecutively. The research design was completely randomized (CRD), and the effects of grafted rootstocks were determined with comparison of percent plant survival, growth characteristics, fruit yield, and texture properties (during storage). The experimental results indicated that all rootstocks presented compatibility with hybrid cucumber (Kalam F1) scion and showed significant comparable performance with hybrid rootstock during all seasons in terms of vegetative growth, yield, and storage except pumpkin (68% during the 1st, 74% during the 2nd, and 71% during the 3rd seasons). The plants with Bottle gourd (Lagrenaria siceraria) rootstock showed the highest survival rate as compared to all other cucurbitaceous and hybrid rootstocks during three seasons: 94%, 98%, and 93%, respectively. Similarly, the other factors such as plant height (613, 622, and 615 cm), fruit weight (282, 281, and 277 g), fruit shape index (7.77, 8.18, and 8.25), Total soluble solids (TSS) (5.1%, 5.17%, and 4.96%), fruit dry matter (4.55%, 4.625, and 4.57%), fruit yield (4.37, 4.9, and 3.95 kg/plant), and disease resistance index (<3) during three seasons were comparable with all other cucurbitaceous and hybrid rootstocks. The lower survival rate of pumpkin rootstock made a significant poor performance with lower growth, yield, nutrients, and storage than all other cucurbitaceous rootstocks. Ridge and Bitter gourds showed improved results for vegetative growth, yield, fruit characteristics, nutritional values, and storage performance than that of hybrid cucumber rootstock. The fruit textural and physical properties were found significantly better at 10 °C than 25 °C for 10 days of storage without quality deterioration, while no impact was perceived on physical properties of the fruit. According to economic analysis, the grafted cucumber production system showed higher net return and benefit-cost ratio (BCR) in comparison with the real rooted hybrid cucumber production system, which was assumed to be profitable practice.

Rootstock screening for greenhouse tomato production under a coconut coir cultivation system

“…Each combination showed a good affinity with a graft survival rate of more than 90%, especially R/GUO, which showed a rate up to 97.93%. Genetic factors, humidity, seedling size, grafting method and so on can all contribute to the graft survival rate, and better graft performance can be obtained with the same species, higher humidity, suitable seedling size and grafting method (Aslam et al, 2020).…”

Effect of Chestnut Hydrolysable Tannin on Weight Management and Ovarian Histopathology of Healthy Female Rats

“…The hybrid cucumber (Kalam F1) was used as a material of the trails. The mentioned cultivars were mostly preferred because of better plant physiological growth, high fruit yield, and quality and highly resistive against soil borne diseases (Noor et al, 2019b;Aslam et al, 2020).…”

“…Ali et al, (2019) first time explored the energy ratios, energy forms, and GHG emission in the cultivation of cucumber under tunnel farming in Pakistan. Aslam et al, (2020) did the economic analysis of grafted cucumber production system in comparison with the real rooted hybrid-cucumber production system. However, in vegetable production system, researches conducted on energy use pattern are insufficient and demanded a detail exploration of utilization energy inputs and sources availability in greenhouse vegetable production.…”

Mining of Simple Sequence Repeats Loci, Genetic Relationship And Population Structure of Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria Siceraria (Molina) Standl.) Accessions With Different Geographical Origin Using Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNPs) Markers

“…The cultivated bottle gourd is also used as rootstock for production of sweet watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus) to control soil-borne diseases, leaf diseases, low soil temperature and improve nitrogen-use e ciency (Yetisir and Sari, 2003; King et al 2008; Ulas et al 2019;Aslam et al 2020) and improve fruit quality (Guler et al 2013(Guler et al , 2014.…”