noun
Etymology
Origin of rootstock
Example Sentences
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In the vineyard, these include using more disease and drought resistant grapes and rootstock, which require fewer chemical sprays and less water.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2024
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
On a few grafted trees where the scion had failed, the rootstock had produced suckers that then bloomed.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
Seeds with a conspicuous rhaphe and an embryo nearly the length of the hard albumen.—A low perennial herb, growing in cold bogs, with a long creeping rootstock, bearing heart-shaped long-petioled leaves, and solitary scapes.
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 Gray, Asa
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