Sentence examples for hardy root from inspiring English sources
The normal corn root system on the left has been nibbled by corn rootworm; the hardy root system on the right is from a genetically modified corn plant.
For a lawn to be at its best in July and August, it has to develop a strong, hardy root system in the spring.
An almond tree in commercial production today begins with a hardy root stock grown from a peach pit (another botanical relative), onto which a more delicate almond cutting is grafted.
They tenderly graft stalks of their discoveries to various types of hardy root stock from Oregon, then bind the new creations with a special blend of plastic tape, beeswax and pine resin.
But communities put down hardy roots that often weather the most extreme adversity.
But even as he planted hardy roots here -- marrying a woman from Syracuse, settling down in Beacon, N.Y., joining an environmental group dedicated to protecting the Hudson River, becoming friends with Pete Seeger, signing on as assistant coach for his 5-year-old son Santi's soccer team -- Mr. Yambem, 41, held fast to his Indian past.
He shines his Maglite on the dirty jobs few others will take, including the ones that crop up at my house with maddening frequency because of an eccentric plumbing scheme and hardy roots from our pine tree.
Sikhism, born about 500 years ago in Punjab, has put down hardier roots; at the last census (in 1991) there were 16.3m Sikhs in India, compared with just 6.4m Buddhists and 3.4m Jains.
It's sunnier, friendlier and more rough-hewn than much of France, tied by its hardy Basque roots to its Spanish neighbors just over the border.
My grandfather's wine grapes had come by train from California, where Old World vinifera have generally been grafted onto hardy native root-stock.
This is still the method of choice for commercial growers: a bud is excised from the hybrid or garden rose and inserted into a slit the grower has made in the stem of the "rootstock," a rosebush of a type remarkable for its hardy, vigorous roots.
