Usually means: Base plants for grafting scions.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (rootstock)

noun:  (agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) The necessary basis for something to develop.
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