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UK
/ɹˈuːtstɒk/
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NOUN
- a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
- root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots
How To Use rootstock In A Sentence
- The search for the rootstock of the decapod Crustacea has resulted in the discovery of numerous Paleozoic organisms that bear some similarity to Mesozoic and Cenozoic shrimp, lobsters, and crabs.
- Regrowth usually occurs, but this treatment will reduce competition from Canada thistle in soybeans and help prevent production of more rootstock.
- Organic managers adhere to the same basic principles when it comes to selecting a site for a new orchard, choosing rootstocks, pruning, and staking or trellising trees.
- Most roses today are grafted onto rootstock that won't look anything like the rose you want.
- The most vulnerable point on most rose plants is the bud union - the point at which the rose variety was budded onto a rootstock.
- Rootstocks do not show virus symptoms, and virology in viticulture was not well understood until the 1950s.
- The bud union, where the shoots join the rootstock, should be an inch under the soil.
- When we were first setting out, we grew our own rootstock and grafted the cultivars ourselves.
- Grafted roses can put out suckers from the rootstock below the bud union.
- Measurements of air conductivity were performed on stem or branch segments of a series of eight unworked apple rootstocks and two scions.
