Is there an eggplant-Irish potato graft? What could possibly be its benefits and shortcomings (challenges), especially in terms of yield and disease resistance?
I think eggplant and Irish potato grafting helps to boost up food production and it reduces space by growing two vegetables in the space of one. However, sometimes it shows incompatibility problem.
Dear Dr. Kumar Dash
Would you please send some papers about this grafting.
Sincerely yours
Have you seen this article "It’s a Twofer! Eggplants and Potatoes in One Plant"?
Copy and Paste this link to view: https://modernfarmer.com/2016/01/its-a-twofer-eggplants-and-potatoes-in-one-plant/
A seed company called 'Thompson & Morgan' hand-graftted this product, and called this product "Egg & Chips" (meaning eggplant and potato)
People has also grafted 'tomato-potato' plants (as seen in the attachment). Here, another article (from Michigan State University Extension (USA)) , it has comments on tomato-potato grafted plants:
1. It is expensive to produce
2. The grafted plant does not produce a great number of either
Source: http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/what_are_those_fruit_growing_on_my_potato_plants
So, if one wants to produce eggplant-potato plants, he/she should consider both problems mentioned above.
This site has more detailed description of how the 'eggplant-potato' plants were produced:
"Experts at Suffolk-based Thompson & Morgan experimented with more than 20 varieties of aubergine, also known as eggplants, before selecting one that was deemed best for size and performance. They then carefully cut the delicate 2 inch-tal (5 cm) stems of the aubergine and potato plants in half at an identical angle before grafting them together. The lower end of the potato plant and the top part of the aubergine then naturally fused together and continued to grow."
"The end result is an average batch of four big purple coloured vegetables on the stem, with 4.5 lbs (2kg) of potatoes under the soil. The 'Egg and Chips' plants are now being sold by British seed company Thompson & Morgan for £14.99."
- Plant was created by horticulturists grafting aubergine and potato plants
- It produces aubergines from its stem and potatoes from its roots
- The aubergines it produces are less bitter than other varieties
- 'Egg and Chips' plant is available by mail order from Thompson & Morgan
- Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3386982/Rise-Frankenplants-Botanists-create-super-strain-produces-aubergines-potatoes-pot.html
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