Recently, I was visiting my sister at Wrightsville Beach and we were invited to a tomato tasting party. Because I love tomatoes, I was looking forward to attending this summer party. When we arrived, ...

For the most part, we get the principle of grafting fruit trees, grapes and roses. A variety of fruit or flowers that we love, but that might be a little iffy for various reasons, is grafted onto a ...

It has been three years since I first saw grafted tomatoes in a seed catalog. I ordered four. I wanted to grow them and compare them to other tomatoes in my summer garden. Last year, I ordered grafted ...

Heterografted pepper fails to form vascular connections and shows a significant decrease in size 30 DAG. (a, c, e, g, i, k, m, o, q, s, u, w, y) Representative ...

Grafting is a time-honoured practice in horticultural crop production that involves uniting a scion, the above‐ground portion of a plant chosen for its desirable fruit or flower characteristics, with ...

Grafting between different plant species can offer advantages like disease resistance and structural resilience. However, graft incompatibility remains a biological mystery. This study uncovers the ...

Leskovar was principal investigator for the multi-location study on tomato grafting and production systems. He and other AgriLife personnel have been investigating how producers can graft tomatoes to ...

In many of the seed catalogs arriving soon in mailboxes, the headliners will be grafted vegetables, in which one or more different varieties grow from a single rootstock. Tomatoes seem to be the ...

Tomatoes are one of the most popular food plants in the world, and as such, have undergone massive amounts of selective breeding. Native to western South America, the tomato can now be found all over ...