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Fruit facts
World’s earliest fruit tree
grafter
Dr Chiranjit Parmar
  The
first person to reproduce true to true type plants of fruit
trees was Feng Li, a Chinese diplomat, who lived 7,000 years ago. He
experimented with various techniques to produce true-to-type plants as
the plants he had been obtaining from the seed of his best quality
fruits did not bear the same-quality fruits. He invented grafting in
which a piece from a good quality, fruit-bearing tree was surgically
joined with another tree and allowed to develop into an independent
tree. He did it on peaches, almonds, persimmons, pears and apple. He
was also the first in the world to start a commercial fruit nursery.
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