{"title":"Technique of grafting with Wufanshu (Vaccinium bracteatum Thunb.) and the effects on blueberry plant growth and development, fruit yield and quality","authors":"Chengxiang Xu, Yangping Ma, Hua Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.scienta.2014.07.021","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Propagation and cultivation results showed that grafting southern highbush blueberry cultivar ʽSharpblueʼ taking Wufanshu (<em>Vaccinium bracteatum</em> Thunb.) as rootstock has much high survival rate, and inlaid bud-grafting and one-bud cut-grafting were both suitable for application. The grafted blueberry saplings integrated the excellent biological traits of rootstock species and scion cultivar, growth vigor was markedly stronger than that of the same-aged none-grafted blueberry in field planting. Further more, early bearing and productivity and fruit quality of grafted blueberry were also significantly improved. Grafting is a practical and efficient technology innovation in blueberry production.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21679,"journal":{"name":"Scientia Horticulturae","volume":"176 ","pages":"Pages 290-296"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2000,"publicationDate":"2014-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.scienta.2014.07.021","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Scientia Horticulturae","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304423814004051","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HORTICULTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 17
Abstract
Propagation and cultivation results showed that grafting southern highbush blueberry cultivar ʽSharpblueʼ taking Wufanshu (Vaccinium bracteatum Thunb.) as rootstock has much high survival rate, and inlaid bud-grafting and one-bud cut-grafting were both suitable for application. The grafted blueberry saplings integrated the excellent biological traits of rootstock species and scion cultivar, growth vigor was markedly stronger than that of the same-aged none-grafted blueberry in field planting. Further more, early bearing and productivity and fruit quality of grafted blueberry were also significantly improved. Grafting is a practical and efficient technology innovation in blueberry production.
期刊介绍:
Scientia Horticulturae is an international journal publishing research related to horticultural crops. Articles in the journal deal with open or protected production of vegetables, fruits, edible fungi and ornamentals under temperate, subtropical and tropical conditions. Papers in related areas (biochemistry, micropropagation, soil science, plant breeding, plant physiology, phytopathology, etc.) are considered, if they contain information of direct significance to horticulture. Papers on the technical aspects of horticulture (engineering, crop processing, storage, transport etc.) are accepted for publication only if they relate directly to the living product. In the case of plantation crops, those yielding a product that may be used fresh (e.g. tropical vegetables, citrus, bananas, and other fruits) will be considered, while those papers describing the processing of the product (e.g. rubber, tobacco, and quinine) will not. The scope of the journal includes all horticultural crops but does not include speciality crops such as, medicinal crops or forestry crops, such as bamboo. Basic molecular studies without any direct application in horticulture will not be considered for this journal.