What: The common name for Vitis coignetiae — crimson glory vine — tells it all. It is indeed glorious when clothed in its large crimson autumnal garb. Its leaves are very large, often to a foot across ...

Cluster and shoot thinning was performed on four-year-old Nero d'Avola vines (Vitis vinifera L.), grafted on 1103 P, so as to leave on each vine, nine well-spaced shoots of similar length, each one ...

Hybrid grapes are becoming more common in winemaking, but what are they? Hybridization is the process of creating a new grape variety by combining two other varieties, usually through the grafting of ...

Patterns of variation at microsatellite loci suggest that root populations of the pest grape phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae) are largely parthenogenetic in Australian vineyards. To investigate ...

A few years ago I was looking for a seedless table grape to plant at my home, and found Raintree Nursery’s description of a cross between Vitis labrusca and Vitis vinifera called ‘Einset.’ Here’s what ...

Almost every wine grapevine in the world is a Frankenstein plant. It's possible that the scientists responsible for them have unknowingly created high-alcohol-producing monsters. The original villain ...

ALTUS -- Winemaking has endured in Franklin County since Swiss-German immigrants planted vines here in the 19th century, in spite of a sometimes-hostile state government, a predominance of dry ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Transmission tests from grape to grape with the leafroll associated closterovirus GLRaVIII were carried out using scale insects of the species ...