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 ...

A Dutch crop technology company has developed a breakthrough method to create stable graft chimeras—plants that combine the ...

That scar is an artifact of a process called grafting, or fusing two separate pieces of wood into a new tree. From citrus to ...

So why are trees grafted? There are a couple of reasons, according to LSU AgCenter fruit and nut specialist Michael Polozola. “Let’s use pecans as an example,” he said. “If you plant ...