Brimato, a grafted plant that grows both tomato and eggplant in India

Published 2021년 10월 15일

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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research have created a grafted plant that can produce both eggplants and tomatoes, potentially increasing yield. The 'Brimato' plant, which can produce up to 2.3 kilograms of tomatoes and 2.64 kilos of eggplants, is resistant to waterlogging and droughts due to the eggplant plant's sturdy roots. The scientists plan to expand this technique to other vegetables. The grafting process takes around 18 days and involves grafting the tomato plant onto the eggplant plant's rootstock.

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The agricultural scientists at the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi successfully develop the Brimato – a grafted plant that yields both eggplants (brinjal) and tomatoes. Each plant yields up to 2.3 kilograms of tomato and 2.64 kilos of eggplants. Plans are afoot for its large-scale cultivation. Scientists from the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (IIVR), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, a field unit of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), have developed a technique of grafting that allows two vegetables to grow from the same plant. “The grafting of the tomato and eggplant has been successful. They are both from the same family though they have different characteristics,” Ananth Bahadur, principal scientist at IIVR, Varanasi, explained. The Brimato incorporates the sturdy qualities of the eggplant plant that withstands both excessive waterlogging and droughts well, the principal scientist said. While so far they have experimented with grafting ...

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