Abstract

For millennia, people have cut and joined different plant tissues together through a process known as grafting. By creating a chimeric organism, desirable properties from two plants combine to enhance disease resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, vigour or facilitate the asexual propagation of plants. In addition, grafting has been extremely informative in science for studying and identifying the long-distance movement of molecules. Despite its increasing use in horticulture and science, how plants undertake the process of grafting remains elusive. Here, we discuss specifically the role of eight major plant hormones during the wound healing and vascular formation process, two phenomena involved in grafting. We furthermore present the roles of these hormones during graft formation and highlight knowledge gaps and future areas of interest for the field of grafting biology.

Keywords

Cell division; Cell differentiation; Plant grafting; Phytohormones; Vasculature; Wounding

Published in

Journal of Plant Research
2018, Volume: 131, number: 1, pages: 49-58
Publisher: SPRINGER JAPAN KK

SLU Authors

• Nanda, Amrit Kaur

  • Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Melnyk, Charles

  • Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Associated SLU-program

SLU Plant Protection Network


UKÄ Subject classification

Developmental Biology


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-017-0994-5

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/93487