Multiple choice

When part of a plant is grafted onto the other plant, what is that portion of plant is called?

  1. Stock

  2. Scion

  3. Stalk

  4. Sucker

  5. None of these

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Grafting and budding are methods of asexual plant propagation that join plant parts, so they will grow as one plant. These techniques are used to propagate cultivars that will not root well as cuttings or whose own root systems are inadequate. One or more new cultivars can be added to existing fruit and nut trees by grafting or budding.  The portion of the cultivar that is to be propagated is called the scion. It consists of a piece of shoot with dormant buds that will produce the stem and branches. The rootstock, or stock, provides the new plant’s root system and sometimes the lower part of the stem. The cambium is a layer of cells located between the wood and bark of a stem from which new bark and wood cells originate.