Breeding rootstocks for fruit trees in Palestine : status and prospective toward future climate change scenarios

Abstract EN

This review characterizes, identifies and presents remarks of breeding rootstocks in Palestine.

It’s based upon a survey of the rootstocks that have been used along decades of breeding and grafting of local and introduced cultivars.

All for acclimatization for hard conditions that confront fruit trees.

It also proposes some expected promising rootstocks that might suit the climate change and whatever affected by it of biotic and abiotic stresses in the area.

Obviously, this review discusses the advantages of the current confirmed rootstocks that are compatible with most of the species of the popular trees.

It also pointed out to inadequate rootstocks that have been used before.

In fact, many of these rootstocks still exist, however the elimination of the other rootstocks refers to different reasons either to the environmental conditions or the incompatibility with the preferred cultivars.