The widely used farm practice of grafting watermelon and other melon plants onto squash or pumpkin rootstocks results in larger amounts of certain pesticides in the melon fruit, scientists are ...

Broadly employed farm practice of grafting watermelon, other melon plants onto squash or pumpkin rootstocks reveals larger quantity of certain pesticides in the melon fruit, report scientists in a new ...

A new watermelon line, developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Clemson University scientists, gets to the root of the problem of a major disease and pest of watermelon crops in the ...

I'm fascinated by a lot of things in the agricultural world, but grafting has to be one of farming's greatest miracles. For more than a thousand years, growers have lopped off stems from one plant and ...

SANTIAGO, CHILE - Grafting of seedlings has been used for decades in many parts of the world, but adoption of the technique is still limited in many countries, due in part to higher costs of grafted ...

It is now possible for a robot to automatically graft vegetable and fruit plants, lifting a burden off farmers’ shoulders. For the first time ever, the Rural Development Administration (RDA) has ...

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