Wondered how to carry out Grafting experiments. Cardamine, a model for plant science in India says that home genetic studies can be on cardamine. Surely we can carry out Grafting experiments on cardamine? Cardamine is a dicot, so grafting can be easy. Since cardamine belongs to mustard family Brassicaceae, we can try using cardamine as Rootstock to grow black mustard (Rhamphospermum nigrum - kaduk in Malayalam) as Scion (shoot).
Kerala Agricultural University scientists had standardized grafting of bitter gourd scion on rootstock of other gourds like bottle gourd. They reported: the best rootstock for grafting [bitter gourd shoot] was pumpkin followed by smooth gourd, bottle gourd, ash gourd, oriental pickling melon and self rootstock. Akhila, A., & George, S. T. (2018). Standardisation of grafting in bitter gourd
But how to try monocot grafting? Isn’t there a model monocot plant for India used by Cubists? All palms are monocots. Little tree plant, or Little Palm, or Mukkutti (in Malayalam) looks like a miniature date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.). So I thought that mukkutti is a monocot and can be the Model plant for monocots. Surprisingly mukkutti is a dicot! Single shoot plants, like arecanut or coconut with no branches, are classified as Arecaceae derived from Malayalam അടയ്ക്ക ataykka. Should not mukkutti belong to Arecaceae?