Document Type

Patent

Publication Date

1-14-2014

Patent Number

patent number 8629330

Abstract

The invention provides methods of inhibiting the growth of a shoot apical meristem of a cucurbit rootstock plant, comprising contacting a shoot apical meristem of the cucurbit rootstock plant with an effective amount of a composition comprising one or more fatty alcohols, thereby inhibiting the growth of the shoot apical meristem of the cucurbit rootstock plant. The present invention further provides methods for preparing and producing cucurbit rootstock plants for grafting and methods for grafting. Additionally provided are cucurbit rootstock plants and plant parts and grafted cucurbit plants produced by the methods of the invention.

Application Number

13/762002

Assignees

Clemson University (Anderson, SC, US); Syngenta Participations AG (Basel, CH)

Filing Date

2013-02-07

Primary/U.S. Class

800/298

Other/U.S. Class

504/353, 47/6

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