Practical application of grafting in seed

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26660018
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Horticultural science
• Research Institution: Hirosaki University
• Principal Investigator: Harada Takeo 弘前大学, 農学生命科学部, 客員研究員 (10228645)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 接ぎ木 / 種子 / キュウリ / ウリ科 / 接ぎ木苗

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Grafting is a very useful cultivating techniques in horticulture plants. However, the preparation of respective nursery plants as scion and rootsock, which should be equally grown, and the grafting operation during a limited period spends great labor for farmers.
I could make a hybrid cotyledon seed which grow up a grafted nurse of scion cucumber with rootstock pumpkin by engrafting of a cucumber cotyledon containing its shoot apex tissue and a pumpkin cotyledon containing its root. Although it is necessary to find out the best method for the engrafting, robotization of this seed grafting process would make practicable in horticulture.

Free Research Field

植物分子育種学