Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 31, No. 4 (2017), pp. 281-288 (8 pages) Effects of water stress deficit were studied on xylem anatomical features and some growth parameters among six olive ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have one in your home landscape — take a close look at the trunk near the soil surface. You might see a faint scar where two ...

Pere Sureda describes himself as a “spreader of biodiversity.” As a grafter, his technical knowledge and dexterity is helping small producers rescue and preserve traditional local varieties that once ...

Spring has sprung and that’s good news for gardeners who’ve been eager to dig into the soil once again. If you’re one of the few who’s added fruit trees to your crop list, there’s one practice you may ...

Grafted trees often fail due to the incompatibility between the rootstock and scion (the grafted on piece of twig or shoot). Even when fruit trees belong to the same genus, two different species may ...