rootstock
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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
The team tested how much 'torture' pistachio and walnut rootstock can withstand by placing them under drought stress.
From Salon • Aug. 23, 2022
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
Previously, folk would simply make new by grafting scion wood of the desired variety to rootstock.
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2020
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
