rootstock

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Virtually all of our vines are planted on their own roots, while all of California is grafted onto rootstock that is resistant to a terrible pest called phylloxera.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2022

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

Short stout shoots which arise directly from the rootstock make the best cuttings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various