A New Method for grafting Sweet Potato

Abstract

Moscov¹, Melchers², Melchers and Lang³, Kuyper and Wiersum⁴, Hamner and Bonner⁵ and Sagaidac⁶ have used grafting in plants to examine movement of substances across the graft union. Using this technique, the movement of nicotine across the graft union in Nicotiana tabacum has been reported⁷. The movement of the flower-inducing substances in Xanthium⁸ and substances transmitting the photoperiodic response generally in plants has been reported⁹. Other uses of grafting in sweet potatoes are for investigating virus diseases¹⁰, flower formation of hard-blooming varieties¹¹ and movement of ascorbic acid¹².