Characterization of the growth and fruit quality of tomato grafted on a woody medicinal plant, Lycium chinense

doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2015.10.005

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	Characterization of the growth and fruit quality of tomato grafted on a woody medicinal plant, Lycium chinense
	Huang, Wenjun 1; Liao, Sihong 1; Lv, Haiyan 1; Khaldun, A. B. M.1,2; Wang, Ying 1
刊名	SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE
	2015-12-14
卷号	197 页码:447-453
关键词	Intergeneric grafting Tomato Lycium Rootstock Fruit quality
ISSN号	0304-4238
DOI	10.1016/j.scienta.2015.10.005
英文摘要	Grafting has been widely used in vegetables, particularly in the plants of Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae families because of its many significant advantages. Substantial studies have revealed that grafting can affect the yield and fruit quality of tomato through the vigorous rootstocks as reported previously. The selection of rootstocks plays an important role in improving the fruit yield and quality of scions. Lycium species (popularly known as goji or goji berry), also belonging to the Solanaceae family, is widely used as the functional fruits and vegetables, as well as traditional Chinese herbs. Goji plants also exhibit the excellent salt-tolerant ability. The intergeneric grafting across different genera, importantly with tomato and plant from different genus is little described. In this study, two commercial cultivars of tomato, Zhongshu 5 (ZS5) and TA209 as scions were grafted on goji plants (L. chinense Mill.), and the growth and fruit quality of tomato were investigated. The ungrafted self-rooted tomato plants were used as the control plants. The results showed that the growth of the grafted tomato plants was slightly depressed by grafting at the early development, but was restored like the self-rooted plants during the late development, and the net photosynthetic rate and chlorophyll content were higher in the grafted plants' leaves at the fruit ripening stage. The size, shape, fresh weight and pigmentation pattern of tomato fruits were remarkably affected by grafting. Grafting produced smaller tomato fruit with lower fresh weight. An interesting observation was noticed that the pigmentation pattern of tomato fruits was close to that of goji berry. Some traits associated with fruit quality were improved by grafting approach, including total soluble solids (TSS), titratable acidity (TA), ratio of TSS/TA and vitamin C (Vc). The natural amino acids and nine mineral elements in tomato fruits were also affected by grafting. It was suggested that the increase of fruit quality may be attributed to the reduction of fruit water content and the effect of rootstock. This is the first report on intergeneric grafting between tomato and goji plants. The grafting procedure had a remarkable influence on the growth and fruit quality of tomato plants. With the perspective of high salt-tolerance of goji rootstocks, it is well worthy to study the performance of grafted tomato under saline condition in future. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[31200242] ; Scientific Project of Ningxia Agriculture Comprehensive Development[znnfkj2015-01]
WOS研究方向	Agriculture
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
WOS记录号	WOS:000367411400056
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://202.127.146.157/handle/2RYDP1HH/161]
专题	中国科学院武汉植物园
通讯作者	Wang, Ying
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Wuhan Bot Garden, Key Lab Plant Germplasm Enhancement & Specialty A, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Huang, Wenjun,Liao, Sihong,Lv, Haiyan,et al. Characterization of the growth and fruit quality of tomato grafted on a woody medicinal plant, Lycium chinense[J]. SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE,2015,197:447-453.
APA	Huang, Wenjun,Liao, Sihong,Lv, Haiyan,Khaldun, A. B. M.,&Wang, Ying.(2015).Characterization of the growth and fruit quality of tomato grafted on a woody medicinal plant, Lycium chinense.SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE,197,447-453.
MLA	Huang, Wenjun,et al."Characterization of the growth and fruit quality of tomato grafted on a woody medicinal plant, Lycium chinense".SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE 197(2015):447-453.