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  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,203 Views
22 Pages

Transcriptome Analysis of the Effects of Grafting Interstocks on Apple Rootstocks and Scions

  • Qingshan Li,
  • Yuan Gao,
  • Kun Wang,
  • Jianrong Feng,
  • Simiao Sun,
  • Xiang Lu,
  • Zhao Liu,
  • Deying Zhao,
  • Lianwen Li and
  • Dajiang Wang

Apples are a major horticultural crop worldwide. Grafting techniques are widely utilized in apple production to keep the varieties pure. Interstocks are frequently used in Northern China to achieve intensive apple dwarfing cultivation. High-throughpu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,176 Views
16 Pages

Effects of 10 Dwarfing Interstocks on Cold Resistance of ‘Tianhong 2’ Apple

  • Junli Jing,
  • Mingxiao Liu,
  • Baoying Yin,
  • Bowen Liang,
  • Zhongyong Li,
  • Xueying Zhang,
  • Jizhong Xu and
  • Shasha Zhou

The lack of dwarf stock with good cold resistance has affected the production of apples in northern China. Annual dormant branches of ‘Tianhong 2’ apple were grafted on 10 different dwarf interstocks (the rootstocks were the seedlings of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,408 Views
13 Pages

Dwarf Interstocks Improve Aroma Quality of ‘Huahong’ Apple (Malus × domestica)

  • Xiang Lu,
  • Yuan Gao,
  • Kun Wang,
  • Simiao Sun,
  • Zhao Liu,
  • Peng Yan,
  • Jianrong Feng,
  • Qingshan Li,
  • Lianwen Li and
  • Dajiang Wang

17 October 2022

‘Huahong’ is a popular apple cultivar because of its anti-browning properties and appealing aroma and flavor. It is mainly planted by grafting on dwarf interstocks in Northeast China. We investigated the different aroma profiles of apple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,137 Views
19 Pages

23 September 2025

High grafting is a widely recognized technique for varietal renewal in aging citrus orchards. However, following high grafting, a specific ‘rootstock-interstock-scion’ combination is formed, yet the influence of interstock on scion fruit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,928 Views
19 Pages

Interstock is an important agronomic technique for regulating plant growth and fruit quality, and overcoming the incompatibility between rootstocks and scions; however, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. In this study, the effects and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,357 Views
12 Pages

Genetic Relationship, SPAD Reading, and Soluble Sugar Content as Indices for Evaluating the Graft Compatibility of Citrus Interstocks

  • Tie Wang,
  • Lijun Deng,
  • Shengjia Huang,
  • Bo Xiong,
  • Muhammad Ihtisham,
  • Zhendong Zheng,
  • Wei Zheng,
  • Zeyu Qin,
  • Mingfei Zhang and
  • Zhihui Wang
  • + 2 authors

9 November 2022

The interstock, a stock between the rootstock and scion, has a significant regulatory effect on the stock and scion, and its function is highly dependent on graft compatibility. To assess the graft compatibility of the interstock and scion, ‘Yu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,466 Views
13 Pages

Interstocks have been used in fruit tree cultivation to regulate tree size and improve fruit production and quality. In this study, several Huanglongbing (HLB)-tolerant open-pollinated pummelo interstock candidates were evaluated as interstocks betwe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,080 Views
11 Pages

30 May 2023

Dwarfing interstocks play an essential role in determining the performance of fruit trees. SH40, Jizhen 1, and Jizhen 2 are widely used dwarfing interstocks in Hebei Province, China. This study examined the influence of these three dwarfing interstoc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,583 Views
20 Pages

Citrus cultivars are propagated asexually through methods such as layering, cutting, and grafting. Grafting plays a critical role in regulating citrus fruit quality by optimizing stock–scion combinations. This study evaluated the grafting compa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,856 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Dwarfing Interstock Length on the Growth and Fruit of Apple Tree

  • Shasha Zhou,
  • Zhen Shen,
  • Baoying Yin,
  • Bowen Liang,
  • Zhongyong Li,
  • Xueying Zhang and
  • Jizhong Xu

There is no report on the effect of the length of Jizhen 2 interstock on the growth and fruit quality of Tianhong 2 apple trees, which are usually grown in Baoding, Hebei Province, China. We surveyed the tree size, branch types, fruit set, fruit qual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,022 Views
15 Pages

‘Hainan Qingyou’ (Citrus maxima) Pomelo is one of the predominant local cultivars cultivated in Hainan Province, renowned for its high economic value and strong market competitiveness. However, during cultivation, it was observed that the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,702 Views
20 Pages

Interstock-Mediated Graft Incompatibility: Insights into Photosynthetic Pigments, Carbohydrates, Antioxidant Defense Systems, and Hormones Response Mechanisms in Citrus

  • Tie Wang,
  • Zhenghua Jin,
  • Ya Yuan,
  • Lijun Deng,
  • Guochao Sun,
  • Siya He,
  • Ling Liao,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Bo Xiong and
  • Zhihui Wang

8 February 2025

Interstock, located between rootstock and scion, plays a critical role in determining graft compatibility. This study aimed to elucidate the physiological mechanisms mediated by interstock in graft compatibility by comparing various leaf and root sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
606 Views
15 Pages

Drought Resistance of Different Scion Varieties Grafted onto Apple SH40 Interstock

  • Jiao Bai,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • Xiaoming Liu,
  • Wenjing Xue,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Binbin Si,
  • Xuelian Huang,
  • Jun Zhou and
  • Wendi Xu
  • + 5 authors

17 November 2025

Apple production in the arid and semi-arid regions of Northwest China, such as Lingwu in Ningxia, faces severe challenges due to water scarcity, which is exacerbated by climate change. To address this issue, this study aimed to identify superior drou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
379 Views
18 Pages

Performance of Twelve Apple Cultivars Grafted onto SH40 Dwarf Interstock: Comprehensive Fruit Quality Evaluation and Selection of Adapted Varieties in Lingwu, Ningxia

  • Zhikai Zhang,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Wenyan Ma,
  • Jiayi Zhai,
  • Xuelian Huang,
  • Wenjing Xue,
  • Jun Zhou,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Xin Zhang and
  • Wendi Xu
  • + 2 authors

This study evaluated the fruit quality of 12 apple cultivars grafted onto the cold-resistant dwarfing interstock SH40 in the arid region of Lingwu, Ningxia, to identify well-adapted varieties for local production. A total of 21 indicators were measur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,778 Views
14 Pages

Double Grafting: A Synthesis of Applications and Future Research Horizons

  • Jialing Yu,
  • Yinglei Zhao,
  • Baoyu Xu,
  • Shiyi Tan,
  • Junhua Tong and
  • Chenghao Zhang

Double grafting is an innovative horticultural technique that enables the rapid and cost-effective development of ideal plants by incorporating an interstock between the scion and rootstock. This review comprehensively examines the multifaceted impac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
913 Views
17 Pages

Impact of Interstock and Rootstock on the Growth and Productivity of Mango (Mangifera indica L.) Cultivar Kent in the San Lorenzo Valley, Peru

  • Sebastian Casas-Niño,
  • Sandy Vilchez-Navarro,
  • Henry Morocho-Romero,
  • Gabriela Cárdenas-Huamán,
  • Esdwin-Oberti Nuñez-Ticliahuanca,
  • Ana-Gabriela Montañez-Artica,
  • Leslie Velarde-Apaza,
  • Max Ramirez Rojas,
  • Juan Carlos Rojas and
  • Flavio Lozano-Isla

Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is a tropical fruit tree characterized by vigorous growth and high fruit production, making it one of Peru’s main export crops. However, its extensive vegetative development requires substantial space, limiting produ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,654 Views
14 Pages

Interaction of MdWRKY24 and MdRGL in Response to Tree Dwarfing in Malus domestica

  • He Zhang,
  • Zhichang Yang,
  • Jianzhu Shao,
  • Jianshe Sun,
  • Qian Zha and
  • Xueying Zhang

28 September 2022

In apple cultivation, dwarf rootstocks are chosen for dense planting and intensive cultivation, which is beneficial to production management. Dwarf rootstocks are widely used in apple production in China. However, the dwarfing mechanisms of dwarf int...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,235 Views
28 Pages

HRformer: A Hybrid Relational Transformer for Stock Time Series Forecasting

  • Haijiao Xu,
  • Hongyang Wan,
  • Yilin Wu,
  • Jiankai Zheng and
  • Liang Xie

15 November 2025

Stock trend prediction is a complex and crucial task due to the dynamic and nonlinear nature of stock price movements. Traditional models struggle to capture the non-stationary and volatile characteristics of financial time series. To address this ch...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,849 Views
7 Pages

Effects of ‘Candidatus’ Liberibacter Asiaticus on the Root System of Poncirus trifoliata Hybrids as a Rootstock for ‘Valencia’ Scion

  • Thaís Magni Cavichioli,
  • Maiara Curtolo,
  • Mariangela Cristofani-Yaly,
  • Josiane Rodrigues and
  • Helvécio Della Coletta-Filho

The symptoms of huanglongbing (HLB), a disease caused by the bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), are visible on the canopy of citrus plants. They include mottling of leaves followed by dropping and lopsided fruits with premature dropp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,548 Views
13 Pages

31 March 2025

Stock return prediction is a pivotal yet intricate task in financial markets, challenged by volatility and multifaceted dependencies. This study proposes a hybrid model integrating long short-term memory (LSTM) networks and graph convolutional networ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,650 Views
18 Pages

Predicting stock trends in financial markets is of significant importance to investors and portfolio managers. In addition to a stock’s historical price information, the correlation between that stock and others can also provide valuable inform...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,779 Views
14 Pages

A Mini Review of Citrus Rootstocks and Their Role in High-Density Orchards

  • Faisal Hayat,
  • Juan Li,
  • Shahid Iqbal,
  • Yang Peng,
  • Leming Hong,
  • Rashad Mukhtar Balal,
  • Muhammad Nawaz Khan,
  • Muhammad Azher Nawaz,
  • Ummara Khan and
  • Jiezhong Chen
  • + 4 authors

27 October 2022

Dwarfing is an important agricultural trait for intensive cultivation and effective orchard management in modern fruit orchards. Commercial citrus production relies on grafting with rootstocks that reduce tree vigor to control plant height. Citrus gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,908 Views
12 Pages

Could an Early Treatment with GA and BA Impact Prolonged Cold Storage and Shelf Life of Apricot?

  • Maja Milović,
  • Žarko Kevrešan,
  • Jasna Mastilović,
  • Renata Kovač,
  • Jelena Kalajdžić,
  • Nenad Magazin,
  • Aleksandra Bajić,
  • Biserka Milić,
  • Gordana Barać and
  • Zoran Keserović

Application of plant growth regulators (PGRs) in apricot orchards is a common practice with a goal of improving yield and/or quality of fruits at harvest. However, the question of whether such treatment alters postharvest properties is seldom answere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,695 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Modal Temporal Dynamic Graph Construction for Stock Rank Prediction

  • Ying Liu,
  • Zengyu Wei,
  • Long Chen,
  • Cai Xu and
  • Ziyu Guan

3 March 2025

Stock rank prediction is an important and challenging task. Recently, graph-based prediction methods have emerged as a valuable approach for capturing the complex relationships between stocks. Existing works mainly construct static undirected relatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,415 Views
17 Pages

Effects of Plant Growth Regulators on Plum (Prunus domestica L.) Grown on Two Rootstocks at Harvest and at the Postharvest Period

  • Gordana Barać,
  • Jasna Mastilović,
  • Žarko Kevrešan,
  • Biserka Milić,
  • Renata Kovač,
  • Maja Milović,
  • Jelena Kalajdžić,
  • Aleksandra Bajić,
  • Nenad Magazin and
  • Zoran Keserović

Plant growth regulators (PGRs), such as cytokinins (6-benzyladenine; BA) and gibberellins (GAs), are widely used in fruit production. This study focused on the plum cultivar “Čačanska rodna” (P. domestica L.) grafted on vegetati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,492 Views
25 Pages

Stock price forecasting remains a persistent challenge in time series analysis due to complex inter-stock relationships and dynamic textual signals such as financial news. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can model relational structures, they often...