rootstock

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In the vineyard, these include using more disease and drought resistant grapes and rootstock, which require fewer chemical sprays and less water.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2024

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

In 1847, an enslaved man known only as Antoine invented a way to graft pecan trees, melding the scion of one pecan tree to the rootstock of another for easy propagation.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 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

July.—The rootstock sends out slender underground stolons, which bear fronds the next year.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa