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(1997) found that silenced class II rootstocks were able to silence class I scions.
devastated European grapewine varieties over the course of the late 1800s and early 1900s, the varieties were saved by grafting them onto resistant rootstocks from the New World.
Since then, these rootstocks have been used to maintain the susceptible Old World cultivars.
Lines that showed silencing were used as rootstocks and nonsilencing lines were used as scions in three types of grafting experiments.