Grape white rot, caused by Coniella diplodiella (Speg.) Sacc. (Cd), significantly impacts grape production and quality, highlighting the need for effective disease management strategies beyond ...

Wine producers in France’s Champagne region have little to celebrate this year, despite a promising harvest season. The 2020 harvest, which began this week, marked its earliest start in history, ...

Grapevines worldwide face heavy losses from fungal diseases, with white rot posing one of the greatest threats. Researchers turned to Vitis davidii, a wild Chinese grape species known for its natural ...

It’s been a mild and springlike March and that means it’s time for gardening. If you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s ...

Wine grapes rot on the vine at an abandoned Central Valley wine grape vineyard in Lodi, California, where farmers are turning to alternate crops due to falling demand ...

Tim Rehbein of the Vernon County UW-Extension Office said ripe rot is a fungus where the spores landed on the grapes midsummer, weather conditions became hot and humid, the disease started growing as ...

As larva, their long tufts of poisonous black spines sting and irritate the skin, covering farmers’ hands in angry red welts. And if there’s enough of them, they’ll completely defoliate vines, induce ...

Introducing Aravelle – a new white wine grape that was 42 years in the making. Cornell grape breeder Bruce Reisch made the hybrid by crossing Cayuga white and riesling grapes in 1981, at the start of ...

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