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- Title
Grafting Watermelon Onto Squash or Gourd Rootstock Makes Firmer, Healthier Fruit.
- Authors
Core, Jim
- Abstract
The article describes the grafting of watermelon onto squash or gourd rootstock to make firmer and healthier fruits. This fruit is actually 92 percent water. Benny Bruton, a plant pathologist with the ARS South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory, in Lane, Oklahoma, evaluated watermelon tops grafted onto gourd and squash rootstock and confirmed them to be resistant to Fusarium wilt, a widespread and costly plant fungus. What Bruton and his colleagues--Warren Roberts, a horticulturalist at Oklahoma State University's Wes Watkins Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Lane, and Wayne W. Fish, an ARS biochemist in Lane--have found, however, is that the fruit that comes from certain grafted plants is at least 25 to 30 percent firmer.
- Subjects
OKLAHOMA; GRAFTING (Horticulture); WATERMELONS; SQUASHES; GOURDS; ROOTSTOCKS; AGRICULTURAL research; FRUIT; WILT diseases; FUSARIUM; ROBERTS, Warren; WATKINS, Wes; BRUTON, Benny
- Publication
Agricultural Research, 2005, Vol 53, Issue 7, p8
- ISSN
0002-161X
- Publication type
Article