rootstock
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Once scientists realized that the American vines were resistant to the pest, they used grafting to combine the Vitis vinifera scions — pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon, champagne — with the American, phylloxera-resistant rootstock.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 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
On a few grafted trees where the scion had failed, the rootstock had produced suckers that then bloomed.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
Leaves and 1-flowered scape from a short rootstock.
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
