Published 2006
The use of rootstocks for grapevines became common around 1880 in France in order to combat the devastating root louse phylloxera, which attacked the roots of the European grapevine Vitis vinifera, and the control of phylloxera remains a major, but by no means the only, reason rootstocks are used.
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