Grafting is a simple technology for propagation of unique wonderful plants. हापूस आंबा a mango famous for its taste, fragrance and vibrant color is cultivated in Konkan, India with the grafted Alphonso, introduced by the Portuguese. But grafting was ruled out for monocots, cereal crops like rice. Cambridge, Swedish, US, Mexico, scientists have crossed this barrier; hats off to them. They have grafted wheat shoot on the interface to oats roots! Embryonic root-shoot interface allows grafting in monocots, Nature volume 602 , 2022