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Today, almost all commercial varieties of wine grapes are grafted onto phylloxera resistant rootstocks. These rootstocks are often produced from hybrid crosses of the following parent varieties: Vitis rupestris: A native of the eastern United
States which provides vigor. Another rootstock which provides some tolerance to Xiphinema index nematode, the vector of fanleaf virus, is a cross between Vitis rotundifolia and Vitis vinifera.
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