Abstract
The influence of grafting on agronomical and qualitative characteristics of four Sicilian eggplant landraces was investigated. Grafted and ungrafted plants were compared in the open field in the northern coast of Sicily. Solanum torvum seedlings were used as rootstock. Regardless of genotypes tested, grafting significantly increased total fruit production, marketable production, and number of marketable fruits, but did not affect weight of marketable fruits and waste production. Landrace 2 (Sciacca), with black epidermal tissue and pyriform fruit shape, when grafted onto S. torvum not only gave a higher yield performance than ungrafted plants, but also showed a higher phenolic antioxidant content. Landrace 4 (Sicilia), with black epidermal tissue and small cylindrical fruits also benefited, when grafted onto S. torvum, from a substantial increase in antioxidant fruit content. As consumers’ demand for fruits and vegetables rich in compounds important for human health is steadily increasing, these landrace/rootstock combinations should deserve more attention by plant nurseries involved in grafted seedling production and interested in the valorization and conservation of eggplant biodiversity.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting increased total fruit production.
- Taxon
- Solanum melongena L.
Solanum melongenat0 - Treatment
- graftinge0
- Outcome
- total fruit productione0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“grafting significantly increased total fruit production, marketable production, and number of marketable fruits”
t0“Solanum melongena L.”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting increased marketable production and number of marketable fruits.
- Taxon
- Solanum melongena L.Solanum melongenat0
- Treatment
- graftinge0
- Outcome
- marketable production, and number of marketable fruitse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“grafting significantly increased total fruit production, marketable production, and number of marketable fruits”
t0“Solanum melongena L.”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting did not affect marketable fruit weight or waste production.
- Taxon
- Solanum melongena L.Solanum melongenat0
- Treatment
- graftinge0
- Outcome
- weight of marketable fruits and waste productione0
- Direction
- did not affecte0
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e0“grafting significantly increased total fruit production, marketable production, and number of marketable fruits, but did not affect weight of marketable fruits and waste production”
t0“Solanum melongena L.”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafted Landrace 2 (Sciacca) had higher yield than ungrafted plants.
- Taxon
- Solanum melongena L.Solanum melongenat0
- Material
- Landrace 2 (Sciacca)e0
- Treatment
- grafted onto S. torvume0
- Outcome
- yield performancee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- ungrafted plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Landrace 2 (Sciacca), with black epidermal tissue and pyriform fruit shape, when grafted onto S. torvum not only gave a higher yield performance than ungrafted plants”
t0“Solanum melongena L.”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafted Landrace 2 (Sciacca) had higher phenolic antioxidant content.
- Taxon
- Solanum melongena L.Solanum melongenat0
- Material
- Landrace 2 (Sciacca)e0
- Treatment
- grafted onto S. torvume0
- Outcome
- phenolic antioxidant contente0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- ungrafted plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Landrace 2 (Sciacca), with black epidermal tissue and pyriform fruit shape, when grafted onto S. torvum not only gave a higher yield performance than ungrafted plants, but also showed a higher phenolic antioxidant content”
t0“Solanum melongena L.”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafted Landrace 4 (Sicilia) had increased antioxidant fruit content.
- Taxon
- Solanum melongena L.Solanum melongenat0
- Material
- Landrace 4 (Sicilia)e0
- Treatment
- grafted onto S. torvume0
- Outcome
- antioxidant fruit contente0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Qualifier
- substantiale0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Landrace 4 (Sicilia), with black epidermal tissue and small cylindrical fruits also benefited, when grafted onto S. torvum, from a substantial increase in antioxidant fruit content”
t0“Solanum melongena L.”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend attention to these landrace and rootstock combinations in grafted seedling production.
- Taxon
- Solanum melongena L.Solanum melongenat0
- Outcome
- landrace/rootstock combinations should deserve more attention by plant nurseries involved in grafted seedling productione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“these landrace/rootstock combinations should deserve more attention by plant nurseries involved in grafted seedling production”
t0“Solanum melongena L.”
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