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Improvement of Vegetables Through Grafting in Changing Climate Scenario

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Advances in Research on Vegetable Production Under a Changing Climate Vol. 2

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Grafting in vegetables is an ancient technique to improve the yield through climate friendly practices. This technique was introduced in USA and become very popular in organic vegetables cultivation. Vegetable grafting is popular practice in many European and North American countries, Japan, Korea, and China. Because vegetable crops are so easy to grow, they are very sensitive to climate change. Drought, floods, and salt caused by temperature and precipitation shifts have severely impacted vegetable crop productivity. Vegetable crop cultivation is difficult to say the least in the face of a rapidly changing environment. Although grafting has traditionally been employed on woody and perennial fruit trees, it is increasingly being used to herbaceous plants like vegetables and flowers. In East Asia, grafting is used as a unique method for dealing with the many threats to intensive vegetable production. The genetic and physiological complexity of abiotic stress restricts the creation of tolerable cultivars at the commercial level. In addition, many vegetable crops lack resistant crossover suitable wild resistant sources, with the exception of a few. In this case, the surgical procedure of grafting a plant has been employed successfully to reduce a wide range of different environmental stress. In this chapter, we illustrate the efficacy of this plant propagation method through a review of research results on vegetable grafting.

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  1. Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur), Saharsa, Bihar, India

    Pankaj Kumar Ray

  2. Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur), Kishanganj, Bihar, India

    Hemant Kumar Singh

  3. Department of Vegetables & Floriculture, Agricultural Research Institute, Patna, Bihar, India

    Shashank Shekhar Solankey

  4. Directorate of Extension Education, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India

    Raj Narain Singh

  5. ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute (ATARI), Patna, Bihar, India

    Anjani Kumar

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Ray, P.K., Singh, H.K., Solankey, S.S., Singh, R.N., Kumar, A. (2023). Improvement of Vegetables Through Grafting in Changing Climate Scenario. In: Solankey, S.S., Kumari, M. (eds) Advances in Research on Vegetable Production Under a Changing Climate Vol. 2. Advances in Olericulture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20840-9_12

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