Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A root system of a plant, often with a portion of the stem, to which a shoot or bud is grafted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, same as
rhizome . - noun The original ground or cause of anything; a root.
- noun In zoology, a cormus, as of a zoöphyte; a rhizocaulus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s�ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.
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- noun agriculture A healthy plant that is used as the base for
grafting ascion - noun by extension The necessary basis for something to develop
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots
- noun a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
Etymologies
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Examples
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An example of the superiority of the black walnut over the Persian walnut as a rootstock is a seedling of the variety Wiltz Mayette growing near a Broadview grafted on black walnut.
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He found that one kind of rootstock turned on twice as many stress tolerance genes in the scion as the other — and that that scion was more resistant to a bacterial disease called fire blight.
Archive 2006-03-19 Edward Willett 2006
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He found that one kind of rootstock turned on twice as many stress tolerance genes in the scion as the other — and that that scion was more resistant to a bacterial disease called fire blight.
Progress in pomology Edward Willett 2006
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"You usually have a rootstock which is well adapted to growing, deep roots, disease resistant ... and then you put your desired variety at the top.
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The bitter oranges must be mighty different from the Sour Orange rootstock used in South Texas ....
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Sweet black cherries grafted on to vigorous rootstock were common in the valley until 50 years ago.
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Several varieties were all growing on Gisela 5 rootstock, which keeps the trees compact, and under frames of netting to keep out the birds – mainly blackbirds, though this year mistle thrushes too.
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Sprigs of Burcombe, Fice, Upright, Birchenhayes and Smutts were all grafted on to special dwarfing rootstock two years ago.
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Different varieties of lemons are grafted onto a rootstock which 'tricks' the tree into thinking it's a much older tree and they bear fruit quite quickly.
Lemon Tree 2009
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“It would be a shame to wipe out the rootstock of all the great cars that followed, to see a utopian symbol like the Jeep Grand Wagoneer or a car with the rich personality of an Alfa Romeo 164 get clobbered,” he said.
Sunday Reading 2009
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