Manipulating plant genes...through grafting!

If you plant a seed from your orange, you might have to wait as long as 15 years to get a tree with fruit, which is kind of a bummer for the impatient types among us. Fortunately, there’s an age-old trick called grafting that can shorten that wait. And grafting do all kinds of other things, as well. Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't Walk SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Chris Peters, Matt Curls, Kevin Bealer, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jacob, Christopher R Boucher, Nazara, charles george, Christoph Schwanke, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Adam, Brainard, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, James Knight, GrowingViolet, Sam Lutfi, Alisa Sherbow, Jason A Saslow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Melida Williams ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)00060-3 https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/download/39857/PDF https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2014.00727/full https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.14383 https://ucanr.edu/repository/fileaccess.cfm?article=93250&p=LTIUZG https://www.zmescience.com/science/domestic-science/tomtato-or-pomato-half-potato-half-tomato-plant-increases-crop-efficiency/ https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/66/8/2211/497463 https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/9/1206 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3593927/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138515002885 Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/grafting-apple-tree-in-march-gm1215910969-354334722 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zweij%C3%A4hrige-Gei%C3%9Ffu%C3%9Fveredelu.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whip_graft_(good)_(cropped).JPG https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/horticulture-and-fruit-tree-bark-and-cleft-grafting-a-gardener-is-grafting-an-apple-gm1310563915-399914682 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ripe-apples-in-orchard-ready-for-harvesting-gm612242240-105419335 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-quinces-gm492893180-76582113 https://plantmethods.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1746-4811-7-34 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spring_Farm_Work_--_Grafting.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beech_tree_trunk_inosculation.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Needle_n_thread.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/grape-vines-in-the-rhine-valley-germany-gm1309478112-399181691 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/vineyard-with-ripe-grapes-in-countryside-at-sunset-gm485286008-71859959 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pear-pyrus-pyrinae-in-the-old-country-gm1030434182-276080071 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/red-delicious-apple-gm1312496499-401289878 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/apple-orchard-gm658414030-120150883 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/grafted-pear-sprigs-to-an-old-apple-tree-with-green-leaves-gm1227107096-361784093 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Applerootstock.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TomTato_2014-06-25.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cucumis_melo_grafted_onto_Cucurbita_ficifolia_root.jpeg https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/reg2.71 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/plant-tissue-diagram-gm1271623476-374152888 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plasmodesmata_en.svg https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/diagram-showing-internal-stem-structure-gm1185909171-334393182 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/young-tomato-seedlings-in-pots-on-white-window-how-to-growing-food-at-home-on-gm1222259136-358597940 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/vineyard-gm153217718-21665247 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RF00073.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RF00452.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MiRNA.svg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ripe-apples-in-orchard-ready-for-harvesting-gm612242240-105419335 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/orangery-orange-trees-with-fruits-on-plantation-edbsrmykliju3c4sb https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/root-gm178771341-24818539 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/full-tree-of-oranges-gm638462614-114488959 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blue-double-helix-models-on-background-gm1151563635-312132928 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/plant-tissue-gm1155985576-314907771