German Society for Horticultural Science stresses, rootstocks modify the scion performance, ie, yield, berry quality and vine vigor (Wang et al., 2019). However, modiϐications vary from scion cultivars. Ǯ1103Ps, for instance, improved the vigor of ‘Monastrell’(Romero et al., 2018), but reduced the size of ‘Chardonnay’vines (Ferroni and Scalabrelli, 1995). Even the same scion/rootstock combination may present various performances (Sommer et al., 2001; Walker et al., 2010) due to the inϐluence of soils, climates and viticulture practices on grapes. In recent years, the utilization of resistant rootstocks is paid rising concerns by researchers in China (Gao et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2012), and grafting a few wine grape varieties onto rootstocks were studied (Li et al., 2019a; Wang et al., 2019). Despite that rootstocks were realized with great potential in resisting stresses, most table grapes are still cultivated by cuttings due to the fortune of not having any phylloxera pest problems in the early years (http://www. fao. org/3/x6897e/x6897e05. htm). However, phylloxera has occurred in some provinces of China since 2005 (Zhang et al., 2010). To cope with the potential stresses, it appears indispensable to make reliable evaluations of rootstocks on agronomic performances of table grapes, especially the major varieties.‘Summer Black’(‘Kyoto’בThompson Seedless’), a classical seedless table grape cultivar released in 2000, is popular in both consumers and growers in China (Wang et al., 2017), and its planting area ran into nearly 20 thousand hectares in 2014 (Cheng et al., 2016). According to an internal communication by scientists from China Agriculture Research System, multiple varieties were found infected with root-knot nematodes in Southeast China in 2010, and ‘Summer Black’was