Responses of rootstock variability to tolerate salinity in tomato

Interspecific Hybrid Rootstocks Improve Productivity of Tomato Grown under High-temperature Stress

“…Grafting might improve growth, fruit yield (Zhang et al 2021), fruit quality traits (Zhou et al 2022), resistances against soil-borne diseases (Manickam et al 2021;Shalaby et al 2022), foliar diseases like tomato mosaic virus (Akhtar et al 2019;Span o et al 2020), tolerance to abiotic stresses such as salinity (Sanwal et al 2022;Zeist et al 2023), drought (El-Mogy et al 2022Kazemi et al 2021), and waterlogging, or hot and wet seasons (Evy and Rima 2020;Ray et al 2023), and high temperatures (Lee et al 2023). Rootstocks are usually designated to improve the tolerance of tomato scions to abiotic stress such as heat stress (Lee et al 2023), which is achieved through translocation between rootstocks and scions of hormones, proteins, and nucleic acids, which can function as signaling molecules that alter the gene expression of scion genotypes (Balfag on et al 2021;Shalaby et al 2022).…”

“…Interspecific hybrids have been used for grafting tomato to increase yield (Djidonou et al 2017), drought tolerance (Nilsen et al 2014), soil-borne disease resistance (Vanlay et al 2022), or tolerance to salinity (Zeist et al 2023). In contrast, interspecific hybrids have not been tested for grafting tomato under heat stress in open field conditions.…”