In this dusty field filled with experimental watermelons off Highway 174 in Hope, Ark., there is but one sound that matters. AC = 1234 --> It's a deep, soft pop, like a cork slipping free from a wine bottle. You hear it when a pocket knife cracks the green rind on a watermelon so full of wet fruit that the outside can barely contain the inside. Terry Kirkpatrick, a professor of plant pathology at the University of Arkansas, spends a lot of time here popping open watermelons. He's searching for...
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