Grafted Watermelon Plants Take in More Pesticides

Friday, January 27, 2012 - 17:30 in Mathematics & Economics

The widely used farm practice of grafting watermelon and other melon plants onto squash or pumpkin rootstocks results in larger amounts of certain pesticides in the melon fruit, scientists are reporting in a new study.

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