grafting

Also known as plant 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
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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.