date:Aug 25, 2020
al scale in Japan for almost 100 years, Miles said. This is not a new concept its just new to us.
As a professor in the Department of Horticulture, Miles and her team experimented with grafted and non-grafted watermelon plants. The healthy rootstocks, resistant to the pathogen, are squash plants.
The study revealed that we can produce grafted watermelon crop yields that are better than non-grafted plants when there is disease pressure, she said.
Non-grafted plants died during the study, but