grafting
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Grafting is a horticultural technique in which a shoot or bud from one plant (called the scion) is attached to the rootstock of another plant and bound together, often with tape and protective coating, so they grow as a single organism. This method matters because it allows growers to combine desirable traits from different plants—such as producing trees that bear multiple varieties of fruit or blossoms on a single rootstock.
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- Advantages
- Factors for successful graft
- Tools
- Techniques
- Approach
- Bud
- Cleft
- Whip
- Stub
- Four-flap
- Awl
- Veneer
- Rind (also called bark)
- Natural grafting
- Graft chimera
- Communication between parts
- Scientific uses
- Examples
- White Spruce
- Herbaceous grafting
- History, society and culture
- Fertile Crescent
- China
- Greece, Rome, and the Middle East
- Europe and the United States
- French Wine Pandemic
- Cultivated plants propagated by grafting
- See also
- References
- External links
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Grafting or graftage is a horticultural technique whereby tissues of plants are joined so as to continue their growth together. The upper part of the combined plant is called the scion () while the lower part is called the rootstock. The success of this joining requires that the vascular tissues grow together. The natural equivalent of this process is inosculation. The technique is most commonly used in asexual propagation of commercially grown plants for the horticultural and agricultural trades. The scion is typically joined to the rootstock at the soil line; however, top work grafting may occur far above this line, leaving an understock consisting of the lower part of the trunk and the root system.