The resistance to Meloidogyne incognita and propagation compatibility of thirteen pepper rootstocks (nine Capsicum chinense; three C. annuum and one C. frutescens) were evaluated under Rubia R, Margarita and Maximos red pepper hybrids grafting. The experiment was carried out in 2005, in Jaboticabal, São Paulo State. Plants were cleft and notch grafted and, 25 days later, the pant surviving was evaluated. Later, the grafted plants and plants without stump were transplanted to a greenhouse and inoculated, individually, with 5,000 eggs and infants in the second phase of M. incognita. The rootstock resistance to nematodes was evaluated at 181 days after inoculation, based on the reproduction factor. The stump/rootstocks compatibility was evaluated considering yield and quality of fruits obtained through seven harvests, 113 to 181 days after seedling transplant. An average of 99,69% of surviving plants was obtained, 25 days after grafting date. The C. annuum and C. frutescens rootstocks were resistant to M. incognita at the end of the vegetative cycle and they provided to grafted plants the higher and lower fruit production and quality respectively, being called compatible and non compatible to stump with Rubia R, Margarita, and Maximos red pepper hybrids. 'Maximos' and 'Margarita', when grafted, presented better productivity and fruit quality, than 'Rubia R'; when non-grafted the productivity did not differ among them, prominence having for 'Margarita' about fruit quality.
Capsicum spp.; Meloidogyne spp.; grafting; greenhouse
