Vegetable grafting: The implications of a growing agronomic imperative for vegetable fruit quality and nutritive value

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Kyriacou, Marios C ^a   Rouphael, Youssef ^b   Colla, Giuseppe ^c   Zrenner, Rita ^d   Schwarz, Dietmar ^d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND ORNAMENTAL CROPS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Cucurbitaceae; Flavor; Functional compounds; MRNA transport; Physiological mechanism; Rootstock; Solanaceae

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020018534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00741     Document Type: Article

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