Micrografting of Pistacia vera L.: A review

Mohammed, A.A.; Arkwazee, H.A.

doi:10.21608/svuijas.2024.262833.1333

Micrografting of Pistacia vera L.: A review

Document Type : Original Article

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Horticulture Department, College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

10.21608/svuijas.2024.262833.1333

Abstract

Pistacia vera is widely propagated by budding or via grafting onto a convenient rootstock to obtain determined sex type trees at the early stage of growth or deal with the environmental issues that may face P. vera during production. Conventional budding and grafting will have certain problems, such as season-dependent and waiting for the seedling for a long time to reach budding and grafting size. Therefore, micrografting has been adopted in the last decades to overcome grafting problems effectively. Micrografting of P. vera essentially depends on many factors, for instance, the type of media along with supporting materials applied in the media, whether the micrografting is conducted in vitro or in vivo, the species of the rootstock used, age of the donor plant of the explant, scion size, the technique employed to the micrografting process. According to the results that have been achieved, pistachio micrografting could be conducted when the above-mentioned factors were controlled. However, the effect of growth regulators and the age of scion need to be further investigated in the future. In this review, the results of P. vera micrografting are highlighted, which have been obtained in the last decades, aiming to update the expertise in this area with the latest information about P. vera micrografting and provide clarity about the gaps that still exist in the micrografting of this species.

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