A ground-breaking twist to the CRISPR tool—aka "genetic scissors"—is being put to use to edit plant genomes by scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, signaling a ...

Grafting has long been the workhorse of clonal tree propagation, but a new study in BMC Plant Biology has pulled back the ...

Grafting has been conducted for thousands of years for the propagation of fruits and vegetables, in which a productive scion is attached onto a rootstock that is resistant to diseases and ...

ICAR–Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, has been at the forefront of advancing vegetable research and ...

If we think biotechnology was invented in the 21st century, consider the somewhat bizarre practice of sticking the top of one plant onto the bottom of another: Grafting, this is called, and it's been ...