rootstock
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Virtually all of our vines are planted on their own roots, while all of California is grafted onto rootstock that is resistant to a terrible pest called phylloxera.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2022
Once scientists realized that the American vines were resistant to the pest, they used grafting to combine the Vitis vinifera scions — pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon, champagne — with the American, phylloxera-resistant rootstock.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
Winzeler and Wenk grafted more than 500 scions of rootstock at the start of the season, of which two-thirds took.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021
As a result, these old vines of monastrell, or mourvèdre as it’s known in French, did not have to be grafted onto American rootstock, which resists phylloxera.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2019
A rhizome, or rootstock, is a horizontal underground stem.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
