rootstock

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The team tested how much 'torture' pistachio and walnut rootstock can withstand by placing them under drought stress.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2022

Previously, folk would simply make new by grafting scion wood of the desired variety to rootstock.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2020

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

On a few grafted trees where the scion had failed, the rootstock had produced suckers that then bloomed.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2018

Its leaves and rootstock are astringent, and the latter yields a yellow dye.

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