rootstock

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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

The soil of Napa Valley may be more diverse than any in the world and trying to understand all the variables, whether it’s rootstock, humidity or the effects of climate change, is humbling.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2020

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2018

Efforts to plant the great wines of Europe – known as Vitis vinifera or classic grapes – failed because their rootstock couldn’t withstand attacks from pests like phylloxera, which thrive in wet climates.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2018

They are herbaceous plants growing from an underground much-branched rootstock from which spring slender aerial shoots which are green, ribbed, and bear at each node a whorl of leaves reduced to a toothed sheath.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various