New grapes needed to ensure future wine
New grapes needed to ensure future wine
Jan 18, 2011 6
Scientists says the future of wine-making depends on developing new varieties of grape.Nearly all types of grape in use today belong to one species, meaning that they are vulnerable to the same diseases.Researchers in the United States have made genome maps of more 1000 vine samples.Writing in the magazine Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers say this type of data plots the way to disease-resistant grape varieties.
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