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March 29, 2022
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Plant grafting and graft incompatibility: A review from the grapevine perspective

Publicated to:Abdom Radiol (Ny). 299 - 2022-06-01 299(), DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2022.111019

Authors: Tedesco S; Fevereiro P; Kragler F; Pina A

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Centro de Investigaci?n y Tecnolog?a Agroalimentaria de Arag?n , Universidad de Zaragoza - Author
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Author
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa , InnovPlantProtect CoLab - Author
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology - Author

Abstract

Grafting is a method for plant propagation and improvement. In the European viticulture, grafting is the sole control strategy against Phylloxera injuries and thus is of crucial importance for sustainable grape production. Despite its benefits, grafting is also a source for disease dissemination and graft incompatibility sometimes detected long after grafting can result in propagation losses. However, the physiology of grafting, such as compatibility factors, callus formation and healing processes, and the signaling components exchanged between scion and rootstock, are still not well understood by the scientific community. Recent insights in grafting research hint at a complex scion-rootstock communication. Molecules exchanged between rootstock and scion, such as hormones, metabolites, proteins, and RNAs coordinate the grafted plant parts and are suspected to modulate the healing of the union and to facilitate the regeneration of the vascular tissues. Such processes result in a successful grafted plant but in many cases, the graft develops distress symptoms, which can appear in early or late stages of plant growth eventually leading to a so-called ‘graft incompatibility’. It is not known whether the cause of incompatibility is based on a rejection of the opposing partners, on growth differences, or on the stress induced by grafting itself. One potential factor leading to graft incompatibility can be based on a deficiency of the recognition of graft-transmissible RNA signals shown to coordinate developmental and environmental shoot-root responses. This review summarizes the current knowledge on grafting from the perspective of viticulture, discusses the hypotheses behind graft incompatibility, addresses the molecular effects of grafting, and novel research perspectives that might help to unveil this millenary mystery.

Keywords

Graft incompatibilityGraftingRna signalingRootstock-scion communicationViticulturaVitis vinifera

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Abdom Radiol (Ny) due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position 5/36, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Horticulture.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.11. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 3.17 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)
  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 13.8 (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-13, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 8
  • Scopus: 26

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-13:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 65.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 70 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Germany; Portugal.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (Pina Sobrino, Ana).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Pina Sobrino, Ana.