graft
transfer of aerial parts of one plant (e.g. buds or twigs - the scion) into close cambial contact with the root or trunk (the rootstock) of a different plant; a method of plant propagation; the joining of cut surfaces or growing roots of two plants to form a living union
(line of dead tissue between scion and rootstock of apple due to infection by tomato ringspot virus)
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