Establishment of technology for asexual multiplying by grafting of some cultivars of melons cultivated in Romania

Abstract

The research was carried out in the Laboratory of Protected Cultures of the Horting Institute Bucharest, in the 2013-2014 period, with the goal to establish a technology of asexual multiplying by grafting of some cultivars of melons cultivated in Romania, pointing out on certain technological aspects concerning the phenotypic compatibility between rootstock and scion. The biological material was consist on three rootstocks as hybrids F1: ‘TZ148’, ‘Shintoza’ (Cucurbita maxima x Cucurbita moschata) and ‘Emphasis’ (Lagenaria siceraria) and two melon of scions as hybrids F1: ‘Caramel’ and ‘Brimos’. The grafting was done mechanized, using robot for grafting GR- 800CS, realized by Helper Robotech Co, Korea. The plant tissues (cambium, xylem and phloem) had fused in the sectioned area. It was obtained one maximum percentage of the survival rate (100%). The stages of the technological flow were established for obtaining grafted seedlings at the cultivars researched.