Grafting is a technique used across agricultural industry: physically binding plants together to improve speed to fruiting, hardiness, pest resistance and hybridization.
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But it was thought that some of the most important crops could not be grafted. These included grasses and cereals like wheat, corn and rice and all sorts of others like bananas, pineapples, bamboo, ginger, and onions.
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We talk to Plant Breeder, Dr Greg Reeves who's seven years of research into grafting grass-like plants monocrots has landed him a job at The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research in Motueka.
