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

In other states, efforts to ban the trees have faced resistance from the plant industry, researchers said, given how much nurseries rely on their hardiness in using it as rootstock.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2021

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

The very short rootstock and strong terminal bud of a Trillium or Birthroot.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa