Pinki Devi, a graduate student in the vegetable horticulture program at the Washington State University Mount Vernon Research Center, talks about her project Wednesday.
Pinki Devi (right) and Abigail Attavar, graduate students in the vegetable horticulture program at the Washington State University Mount Vernon Research Center, work in the greenhouse May 1. The students are from India.
Doctoral candidate Pinki Devi cuts the top of a watermelon seedling that is to be attached to squash root stock to increase disease resistance in watermelon crops.
Pinki Devi, a graduate student in the vegetable horticulture program at the Washington State University Mount Vernon Research Center, talks about her project Wednesday.
Pinki Devi (right) and Abigail Attavar, graduate students in the vegetable horticulture program at the Washington State University Mount Vernon Research Center, work in the greenhouse May 1. The students are from India.
Doctoral candidate Pinki Devi cuts the top of a watermelon seedling that is to be attached to squash root stock to increase disease resistance in watermelon crops.
MOUNT VERNON — With the slice of a razor blade, Pinki Devi removes the top of a watermelon seedling and clips it to a squash stem. Beside her, Abigail Attavar comments that the new plant looks like Frankenstein’s monster.
Devi and Attavar, both from India, are graduate students in the Department of Horticulture at the Washington State University Mount Vernon Research Center.
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