Rootstock Definition

Rootstock Sentence Examples

• The underground stem or rootstock (rhizome) of perennial grasses is usually well developed, and often forms very FIG.

• Tillage operations, the hoeing of root crops and the removal of the creeping rootstock will all help to reduce the weed.

• The secret, she reveals, is to have rootstock beginning to grow, but the variety wood dormant.

• Grown on a modern dwarf rootstock it is now quite possible to cultivate a good quality heavy yielding small tree in a tub.

• A gene fragment, coding for the coat protein of the virus, is introduced into cells of healthy grapevine rootstock.