Claim · model-written summary
Grafting onto Cobalt rootstock increased fruit number by 54.4% relative to non-grafted plants.
- Taxon
- Cucumis sativus
Cucumis sativuse0 - Material
- Cobalt rootstocke1
- Treatment
- Grafting onto Cobalt rootstocke1
- Outcome
- fruit numbere3
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 54.4%e3
- Comparator
- non-grafted plantse2
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“grafting cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. cv. Saba hybrid)”
e1“Grafting onto Cobalt rootstock significantly increased chlorophyll content (from 1.22 to 1.69 mg g−1 FW; + 39.0%)”
e2“Relative to non-grafted plants”
e3“fruit number (from 35.5 to 54.8 fruits per plant; + 54.4%)”
Title
Mahdi Bikdeloo; Hamid Reza Roosta; Hamid Reza Abbasi; et al. Scientific Reports 2026. doi:10.1038/s41598-026-49714-6
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Grafting onto Cobalt rootstock increased cucumber chlorophyll content by 39.0% relative to non-grafted plants.
- Intervention effect Grafting onto Cobalt rootstock increased plant height by 9.4% relative to non-grafted plants.
- Intervention effect Grafting onto Cobalt rootstock increased total yield by 57.9% relative to non-grafted plants.
- Intervention effect Grafting onto Cobalt rootstock reduced postharvest weight loss by 17.6% relative to non-grafted plants.
- Intervention effect Grafting onto Cobalt rootstock reduced postharvest firmness decline by 39.2% relative to non-grafted plants.
- Intervention effect Total soluble solids after storage were highest in Zanjan rootstock-grafted plants.
- Intervention effect Zanjan rootstock increased root volume by 20.6%.
- Intervention effect Zanjan rootstock was not superior to the commercial rootstock for most yield-related traits.
- Intervention effect Leaf size and sensory quality were reduced in both rootstock-grafted plants relative to non-grafted plants.
- Observation Fruit flavor remained within an acceptable range for consumers in grafted cucumber.
- Intervention effect Cobalt rootstock-grafted plants showed a more favorable balance between yield improvement and postharvest performance.
- Recommendation Grafting onto commercial rootstocks can be considered a useful strategy to enhance greenhouse cucumber yield and postharvest quality.