Fruit Maturity and Quality of Splice-grafted and One-cotyledon Grafted Watermelon

Devi, Pinki; Lukas, Scott B.; Miles, Carol A.

doi:10.21273/hortsci15045-20

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“…In the current study fruit from all treatments reached physiological maturity (senescence of leaflet and tendril attached to the fruit pedicel) at the same time in both years. A similar result was found in a study in Hermiston, OR, where first flowering was delayed 2 d for 'Secretariat' grafted with 'Shintosa Camelforce' and 'Tetsukabuto', but fruit reached physiological maturity at the same time as nongrafted plants (Devi et al, 2020). Although Attavar et al (2020) reported that grafted treatments tended to flower at the same time as nongrafted 'Secretariat', a comparison of days to first harvest could not be made due to premature death of nongrafted plants from verticillium wilt.…”

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“…The potential cause may be the grinding of the sample in 2018, which results in small particles that aid lycopene extraction. Flesh firmness in the current study was greater for grafted 'Secretariat' than for the nongrafted treatment, as has been reported in numerous studies with other watermelon scions (Bruton et al, 2009;Buller et al, 2013;Dabirian et al, 2017;Davis and Perkins-Veazie, 2005;Devi et al, 2020;Kyriacou and Soteriou, 2015;Wimer et al, 2015;. Increased flesh firmness in grafted watermelon could be due to higher cell density (Fallik and Ziv, 2020;Soteriou et al, 2017) and is a positive enhancement of fruit quality because firm fruit have an extended shelf life (Bruton et al, 2009;Saftner et al, 2006).…”

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“…Plant and field preparation. All plants were grown at WSU Mount Vernon NWREC, and grafting was with the one-cotyledon method following procedures developed for this site (Devi et al, 2020;Miles et al, 2016). Both years, the field was fertilized with 105 kg • ha -1 of nitrogen, 30 kg • ha -1 of phosphorus, and 70 kg • ha -1 of potassium (NutriRich 8N-0.8P-3.3K; Stutzman Environmental Products, Canby, OR).…”

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“…Hollow heart (placental detachment from the rest of the flesh) and hard seed formation are morphological abnormalities sometimes associated with grafted triploid watermelon and may reflect rootstock-scion incompatibility or adverse environmental conditions or cultural practices (Davis et al, 2008;Lee, 1994;Yamasaki et al, 1994). Increased flesh firmness has been shown in many studies (Bruton et al, 2009;Dabirian et al, 2017;Davis and Perkins-Veazie, 2005;Devi et al, 2020;Kyriacou and Soteriou, 2015;Paroussi et al, 2007), while no change has been reported by some (Alan et al, 2018;Buller et al, 2013;Karaca et al, 2012). Similarly, for lycopene content, grafted watermelon fruit showed increased content compared with nongrafted fruit in some studies (Davis et al, 2008;Proietti et al, 2008), while there was no difference in other studies (Bruton et al, 2009;Dabirian et al, 2017;Soteriou and Kyriacou, 2014;Wimer et al, 2015).…”

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Rootstock and Plastic Mulch Effect on Watermelon Flowering and Fruit Maturity in a Verticillium dahliae–Infested Field

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Perkins‐Veazie²,

Miles³

2020

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Separately, grafting and the use of plastic mulch can increase yield, quality, and early harvest of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), especially when plants are under biotic and/or abiotic stress. A 2-year field study was conducted to evaluate the combination of four different rootstocks and two types of plastic mulch (black and clear) on date of watermelon first flowering, fruit ripening, yield, and fruit quality when plants were exposed to Verticillium dahliae. Seedless watermelon cv. Secretariat was grafted onto rootstocks Lagenaria siceraria cv. Pelop, Benincasa hispida cv. Round, and two interspecific hybrid squash rootstocks Cucurbita maxima × C. moschata cvs. Super Shintosa and Tetsukabuto, with nongrafted ‘Secretariat’ as the control. Fruit were harvested 0, 7, and 14 days after both the leaflet and tendril attached to the fruit pedicel were completely dry (fruit considered to be physiologically mature). The area under the disease progress curve (AUDPC) values for verticillium wilt were not different for mulch type in either year, although the overall AUDPC value was greatly reduced in the four grafted treatments (227) compared with nongrafted (743). There was no difference in days to male or female flowering due to mulch type or year, and rootstock did not affect first flowering of male flowers. Female flowering was 14 and 11 days later in 2018 and 2019, respectively, for ‘Secretariat’ grafted onto bottle gourd ‘Round’ compared with ‘Secretariat’ grafted onto ‘Tetsukabuto’. Female flowering of ‘Secretariat’ on ‘Round’ was also 7 days later compared with nongrafted ‘Secretariat’ both years. However, days to first harvest was not different with mulch or rootstock and was 92 days after transplanting (DAT) in 2018 and 114 DAT in 2019. There was no difference in yield (fruit number and weight) due to year, harvest date, or mulch, but there was a difference due to grafting. ‘Secretariat’ grafted onto ‘Super Shintosa’ had the greatest total number and weight of fruit per plant (3.7 and 14.8 kg, respectively), and nongrafted ‘Secretariat’ had the lowest (0.7 and 3.2 kg, respectively). Fruit quality attributes hollow heart formation (rating 3.2/5 on average), hard seed count (6 on average), total soluble solids (11% on average), and lycopene content were not different among mulch type, rootstock treatment, or harvest date; however, lycopene content did differ due to year (52.44 and 32.51 µg·g−1 in 2018 and 2019, respectively). Flesh firmness was highest for watermelon grafted onto ‘Super Shintosa’ rootstock (6.7 N) and lowest for nongrafted watermelon (4.3 N). Overall, rootstocks reduced verticillium wilt severity and increased fruit yield whereas mulch had no effects, and 5 V. dahliae colony forming units (cfu)/g of soil may be the minimum level for impact on watermelon fruit yield.

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2020

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“…Grafting is used for an array of vegetables, including tomatoes, cucurbits, and peppers. Grafting can improve agronomic characteristics, abiotic stress resistance, fruit quality, and yield compared with nongrafted plants (Devi et al, 2020;Penella et al, 2017;Sabatino et al, 2018;Suchoff et al, 2019). In some cases, rootstocks provide scions an altered root architecture that reduces requirements for water and fertilizer inputs compared with nongrafted plants (Colla et al, 2010;Kumar et al, 2017;Ropokis et al, 2019).…”

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Effects of Interspecific Grafting Between Capsicum Species on Scion Fruit Quality Characteristics

Vega-Alfaro

Bethke

Nienhuis

2021

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Production of Capsicum annuum peppers is often limited, especially in tropical environments, by susceptibility to soil pathogens including Ralstonia solanacearum. Grafting desirable cultivars onto selected rootstocks can increase adaptation to abiotic stress and is an alternative to pesticides for managing soilborne pathogens. Cultivars of two other pepper species, Capsicum baccatum and Capsicum chinense, are tolerant or resistant to an array of soilborne pathogens and have potential as rootstocks; however, knowledge of how interspecific grafting may affect scion fruit quality is lacking. Flowering time, yield, and fruit quality characteristics were evaluated in 2017 and 2020 for C. annuum cultivars Dulcitico, Nathalie (2017), Gypsy (2020), and California Wonder used as scions grafted onto Aji Rico (C. baccatum) and Primero Red (C. chinense) rootstocks, including self-grafted and nongrafted scion checks. In 2020, the rootstocks per se were evaluated. The two rootstocks (‘Aji Rico’ and ‘Primero Red’), three scions, and self- and nongrafted scions were evaluated using a factorial, replicated, completely randomized design in fields at the West Madison and Eagle Heights Agricultural Research Stations located in Madison, WI, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. Differences among the main effects for scion fruit quality characteristics were consistent with cultivar descriptions. No scion × rootstock interactions were observed. Rootstocks did not result in changes in total fruit number, yield, fruit shape (length-to-width ratio), or soluble solids of scion fruit compared with self- and nongrafted checks. The rootstock ‘Primero Red’ increased fruit weight and decreased time to flowering regardless of scion compared with self- and nongrafted checks. All scions were sweet (nonpungent) cultivars and both rootstocks were pungent cultivars. No capsaicinoids were detected in the fruit of sweet pepper scions grafted onto pungent pepper rootstocks. The results indicate that interspecific grafts involving ‘Aji Rico’ and ‘Primero Red’ will not have deleterious effects on fruit quality characteristics of sweet pepper scions.

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Rootstock–scion interaction mediated impact on fruit quality attributes of thick-skinned melon during storage under different temperature regimes

Kaleem

Nawaz

Alam

et al. 2023

Scientia Horticulturae

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Fruit Maturity and Quality of Splice-grafted and One-cotyledon Grafted Watermelon

Cited by 10 publications

References 40 publications

Rootstock and Plastic Mulch Effect on Watermelon Flowering and Fruit Maturity in a Verticillium dahliae–Infested Field

Rootstock and Plastic Mulch Effect on Watermelon Flowering and Fruit Maturity in a Verticillium dahliae–Infested Field

Effects of Interspecific Grafting Between Capsicum Species on Scion Fruit Quality Characteristics

Rootstock–scion interaction mediated impact on fruit quality attributes of thick-skinned melon during storage under different temperature regimes

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