Trees are often viewed as individuals that compete with one another for access to limited resources. But could trees in stressed environments actually benefit from positive, facultative interactions?

While the term “grafting” is widely used among gardeners, a true understanding of grafting and why it is done is not so common. In a nutshell, grafting is a horticultural technique that joins parts ...

Grafting melon (Cucumis melon L.) onto pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima Duch. × Cucurbita moschata Duch.) rootstock is a method of improving yield but is challenged by the scion-rootstock incompatibility ...

Trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) is a clonal tree species, which regenerates mostly through root suckering. In spite of vegetative propagation, aspen maintains high levels of clonal diversity. We ...

While such root-grafting has previously been observed amongst trees of the same or similar species, it has usually been between a few trees that are all still complete and fully-functioning, which ...

Learn how and when to plant fruit trees in your home garden—and how to maintain them for the optimal yield After the decisions of where and what kind of tree to plant, deciding when to plant is much ...

The Board of Supervisors agreed today to empower the newly appointed head of the Probation Department to root out incompetence and graft and to set up an independent unit to handle internal ...

It is a well known historical fact that before the Marcos martial law dictatorship, the Philippines was the second wealthiest country in Asia next only to Japan. Today, we have fallen behind nations ...

Phytochelatins (PCs) are peptides that function in heavy-metal chelation and detoxification in plants and fungi. A recent study showed that PCs have the ability to undergo long-distance transport in a ...