Subject: Re: [NAFEX] my undergraduate research-mycorrhizae and grafting
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:24:56 EDT
In a message dated 10/24/2007 7:58:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, geoff_steen@yahoo.com writes:
NAFEXers,
I'm a student at Warren Wilson college in Asheville, NC.
A natural science seminar research project is required of all
science majors here and I'm thinking to test the effect of
mycorrhizal treatments on grafted potted trees (apples, pears,
orpersimmons) against a control without treatment (sterile soil
medium). I would like to observe the success rate of the graft
taking.
Some questions I have are:
3.) where can I find standard success rates to compare with in peer-reviewed literature for grafting these types of fruits.
Any commentary would be appreciated, especially a pointer to where to find good research on grafting rates for persimmons, apples, and pears and where to find a mycorrhizal inoculant for them.
Fruit for humanity,
Geoffrey Steen
Hello Geoffrey,
First I applaud your wishing to research the effects of mycorrhizal treatments on potted trees. But I'd like to suggest using another tree species such as Juglans or Carya.
The fruits you suggested normally have very high success rates. Detecting a difference between of inoculated and uninoculated upon grafting will be only slight, if any at all. The grafting rates of walnut and pecan are normally lower and success rates might be more easily documented.
Chestnut might also be a good selection because of an incompatibility problem between chestnut material. Might inoculation reduce that problem?
Jerry
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Re: [NAFEX] my undergraduate research-mycorrhizae and grafting,
Jwlehman, 10/25/2007