

Revving up the Mustang®: A New Prunus Rootstock
It is a common practice around the world for fruit trees to be made of two parts that have been joined together by an ancient technique called “grafting.” The lower part, called the rootstock are selected and bred for cold and drought tolerance, soil adaptability and rooting capability, disease resistance, growth habit, and fruit yield efficiency. The top part is called the scion and is the part of the plant what we typically see when looking at a tree. It is the flowering an