Xiaotao Ding, Chen Miao, Rongguang Li, Lizhong He, Hongmei Zhang, Haijun Jin, Jiawei Cui, Hong Wang, Yongxue Zhang, Panling Lu, Jun Zou, Jizhu Yu, Yuping Jiang, Qiang Zhou
Grafting is widely used to enhance the phenotypic traits of tomatoes, alleviate biotic and abiotic stresses, and control soil-borne diseases of the scion in greenhouse production. There are many factors that affect the healing and acclimatization stages of seedlings after grafting. However, the role of light has rarely been studied. In this study, we compared the effects of artificial light and traditional shading (under shaded plastic-covered tunnels) on the recovery of grafted tomato seedlings. The results show that the grafted tomato seedlings recovered using artificial light had a higher healthy index, leaf chlorophyll content, shoot dry weight, and net photosynthetic rate (Pn ) and water use efficiency (WUE) compared with grafted seedling recovered using the traditional shading method...
November 3, 2023: International Journal of Molecular Sciences