BBAuthors: Aidoo, M.K.; Advisor: -; Participants: Sherman, T.; Ephrath, J.E.; Fait, A.; Rachmilevitch, S.; Lazarovitch, N. (2018)
Fluctuations of winter and summer and day and night temperatures strongly influence shoot and root growth, as well as the whole plant tolerance to extreme soil temperatures. We compared the response of a commercial pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) hybrid (Romance, Rijk Zwaan) to a range of soil temperatures when grafted to a new rootstock hybrid (S101, Syngenta), self‐grafted, or ungrafted. The new rootstock hybrid was bred for enhancing abiotic stress tolerance. Plants were grown during winter and summer seasons in a plastic greenhouse with natural ventilation. Minirhizotron cameras and in‐growth cores were used to investigate grafted bell pepper root dynamics and root and shoot interacti... 
