Journal
HORTSCIENCE
Volume 51, Issue 12, Pages 1618-1624Publisher
AMER SOC HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE
DOI: 10.21273/HORTSCI11275-16
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Solanum lycopersicum; scion; soluble solids; carotenoids; ascorbic acid; phenolics; antioxidant activity
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- National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture [GS10-097, 2011-51181-30963]
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In this study, the effects of grafting with interspecific hybrid rootstocks on fieldgrown tomato fruit quality were evaluated over a 2-year period. Fruit quality attributes from determinate ` Florida 47' tomato plants grafted onto either 'Beaufort' or 'Multifort' rootstocks were compared with those from non-and self-grafted controls. Grafted plants had higher fruit yields than non-and self-grafted plants, and increased production of marketable fruit by approximate to 41%. The increased yield was accompanied by few major differences in nutritional quality attributes measured for these fruit. Although grafting with the interspecific rootstocks led to consistently small, but significant increases of fruit moisture (approximate to 0.6%), flavor attributes such as total titratable acidity (TTA) and the ratio of soluble solids content (SSC) to TTA were not significantly altered. Among the antioxidants evaluated, ascorbic acid concentration was reduced by 22% in fruit from grafted plants, but significant effects were not evident for either total phenolics or antioxidant capacity as assayed by oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC). Levels of carotenoids (lycopene, beta-carotene, and lutein) were similar in fruit from grafted plants with hybrid rootstocks compared with non- and self-grafted controls. Overall, the seasonal differences outweighed the grafting effects on fruit quality attributes. This study showed that grafting with interspecific hybrid rootstocks could be an effective horticultural technique for enhancing fruit yield of tomato plants. Despite the modest reduction in ascorbic acid content associated with the use of these rootstocks, grafting did not cause major negative impacts on fruit composition or nutritional quality of fresh-market tomatoes.
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