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King,7 Roni Cohen,8 and Jung-Myung Lee9 1United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 159, Hwy 3 West, Lane, OK 74555, U.S.A. 2National Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Kusawa-360, Ano, Tsu, Mie 514-2392, Japan 3Departamento de Produccion´ Vegetal, ETSIA, Universidad Politecnica´ de Valencia, Co de Vera s/n 46022 Valencia, Spain 4National Horticultural Research Institute, Rural Development Administration, Suwon 441-440, Rep. of Korea 5AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center, P.O. Box 42, Shanhua, Tainan, 74199, Taiwan 6Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Apartado Oficial, 46113 Moncada, Valencia, Spain 7Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, U.S.A. 8ARO, Newe Ya’ar Research Center P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay, 30095, Israel 9Dept. of Horticulture, Kyung Hee University, Suwon 449-701, Rep. of Korea Table of Contents I. CUCURBIT GRAFTING ......................................................................................................................................51 A. Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................51 B. History ...........................................................................................................................................................52 C. Current Status .................................................................................................................................................53 D. Concerns Associated with Grafting ...................................................................................................................53 E. Economic Feasibility .......................................................................................................................................53 II. WHY GRAFT CUCURBITS? ...............................................................................................................................54 A. Disease Control ..............................................................................................................................................54 B. Cold/Heat Tolerance ........................................................................................................................................56 C. Wet/Flood/Drought/Salinity Tolerance ..............................................................................................................56 D. Increased Efficiency of Land Usage ..................................................................................................................56 Downloaded By: [USDA National Agricultural Library] At: 11:18 13 August 2008 E. Effect of Grafting on Flowering and Harvest ......................................................................................................56 F. Nutrient Uptake ..............................................................................................................................................57 III. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ........................................................................................................................................57 A. Scion and Rootstock Physiology .......................................................................................................................58 B. Vigor and Shape ..............................................................................................................................................58 C. Yield and Size ................................................................................................................................................58 D. Quality ...........................................................................................................................................................59 IV. WHAT CUCURBITS ARE GRAFTED .................................................................................................................60 A. Watermelon ....................................................................................................................................................60 B. Cucumber ......................................................................................................................................................60 Address correspondence to Angela R. Davis, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, South Central Agri- cultural Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 159, Hwy 3 West, Lane, OK 74555, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected]. 50 CUCURBIT GRAFTING 51 C. Melons ...........................................................................................................................................................61 D. Bitter Gourd ...................................................................................................................................................61 E. Summer Squash ..............................................................................................................................................61 F. Chinese Snake Gourd ......................................................................................................................................61 G. Commonly Used Rootstocks ............................................................................................................................61 V. GRAFTING METHODS ......................................................................................................................................62 A. Tongue Approach/Approach Graft ....................................................................................................................64 B. Hole Insertion/Terminal/Top Insertion Graft ......................................................................................................64 C. One Cotyledon/Slant/Splice/Tube Graft ............................................................................................................65 D. Cleft/Side Insertion Graft .................................................................................................................................65