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Mexico: Chili and potato grafts in Aguascalientes

Araceli Guadalupe Mendieta Vazquez, who has a masters in Agronomic Sciences from the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, carried out a research project to graft Chili and potatoes, which belong to the Solanaceae family.According to Mendieta Vazquez, the great majority of grafts between plants in the world is carried out between tomatoes and eggplants; however, she said, it is necessary to discover other options for growing food due to the growing worldwide demand.She also said that they had chosen domesticated potato and wild potato plants as rootstock for this project, and that the chilis were destined . . .

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