rootstock
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It uses a harmless bacterium to insert DNA into the rootstock exactly where it is needed to give the tree resistance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
A commercial tree comprises a rootstock, chosen for its tolerance to local conditions, grafted to the upper half which determines what sort of fruit is produced.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The team tested how much 'torture' pistachio and walnut rootstock can withstand by placing them under drought stress.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2022
On a few grafted trees where the scion had failed, the rootstock had produced suckers that then bloomed.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
Otherwise as Tussilago.—Perennial woolly herbs, with the leaves all from the rootstock, white-woolly beneath, the scape with sheathing scaly bracts, bearing heads of purplish or whitish fragrant flowers, in a corymb.
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 Asa Gray
