The peroxidase activities and total phenols present a great importance in the union between the stock and the rootstock, and this is a way to evaluate the response to stress of the incompatibility in the graft process. This work aimed to quantify peroxidase activities and total phenols in order to verify its influence on the physiological and biochemical processes of Prunus sp. cultivars grafting. Those metabolic processes the samples in the bark and wood were processed and quantified by spectrophotometry, starting from peach rootstock GF 677, Okinawa, Capdeboscq and Aldrighi; and plum rootstock cv. Mirabolano and Marianna Comum, from nurseries of the Department of Plant Science of FAEM/UFPel. It is concluded that: peroxidase and the total phenol activities vary among rootstocks, growth period and tissue type; the highest peroxidase activities and total phenols occurred in Mirabolano and Marianna rootstoks; the peroxidase activities and total phenols were higher in the bark than in wood; the largest peroxidase activities occurs during the rest period and lower amount of total phenols, being the contrary in the vegetative period.
tree peach; tree plum; metabolism
