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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Grafting Monocotyledonous Plants
« on: March 12, 2024, 04:12:25 PM »
A few weeks ago I was thinking about all the grafting I was looking forward to this spring. Looking at my Jubaeas and other monocots it made me sad that I can't do the same to them - or so I thought. I decided to do a little research and found a really interesting paper published in 2021 about grafting monocots at the embryonic stage at the root stem interface.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04247-y
While they patented their approach, so there isn't a methods section, there are some good images included on the basic methodology and results. They initially testing this on cereal grains like rice and wheat. Later this technique proved successful with the three monocotyledonous clades and the team was able to graft bananas, palms, agave, pineapple, onions and others.
For the cereal grains at least they were able to grow their grafted plants to maturity, but I'd definitely be curious how palms and other longer lived species grow and mature.
Here's a presentation from one of the researchers that goes over most of what is included in the paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtimGEekBlY
and here is another interesting article and this application to bananas
https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/news/research-supported-by-cambridge-enterprise-and-ceres-agri-tech-published-in-nature/
What are your thoughts?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04247-y
While they patented their approach, so there isn't a methods section, there are some good images included on the basic methodology and results. They initially testing this on cereal grains like rice and wheat. Later this technique proved successful with the three monocotyledonous clades and the team was able to graft bananas, palms, agave, pineapple, onions and others.
For the cereal grains at least they were able to grow their grafted plants to maturity, but I'd definitely be curious how palms and other longer lived species grow and mature.
Here's a presentation from one of the researchers that goes over most of what is included in the paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtimGEekBlY
and here is another interesting article and this application to bananas
https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/news/research-supported-by-cambridge-enterprise-and-ceres-agri-tech-published-in-nature/
What are your thoughts?