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The article was originally published as Aylward, D, Extending the grape vine: innovation and knowledge transmission within the Australain wine industry, Australian Agribusiness Review, 13, 2005. This journal is available online here.
The Maharashtra government's decision seven years back to encourage the grape wine industry in the state seems to have yielded results as the number of wineries here are on a rise, benefiting growers.
Once a problem is identified, assemblies of promising species are made. These assemblies, known as accessions, include both native and foreign ecotypes. The accessions are planted in a nursery and evaluated for those characteristics important to solving the problem.
Researchers at Northwestern University Medical School have found that a chemical in red wine believed to help reduce risk for heart disease is a form of estrogen. The substance, resveratrol, is highly concentrated in the skin of grapes and is abundant in red wine.
Sioux Falls, S.D. April 10, 2007 The 8th annual Big Grape, premiere wine tasting event, will take place on Friday, April 20, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Avera McKennan Fitness Center in Sioux Falls.
The Great Wine Blight. 1987. Out of print but available at libraries and used book dealers. 2. NYT Magazine Oct. 17, 1993 - review article. Available in libraries 3. California Agriculture. July/Aug 96. vol.50 #4 - review article. Availabe in academic libraries.
P79 CHIMERAS : A NEW SOLUTION FOR IMPROVING BOTRYTIS CINEREA GRAPE RESlSTANCE? Sandrine Verdisson, Fabienne Baillieul & Jean-Claude Audran University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Physiology, UFR Sciences; Moulin de la Housse, BP 1039, 51687 Reims cedex 2, France.
Grape and many other woody plants tolerate freezing temperatures during the winter by enabling the water in their buds to cool below zero degrees without forming ice - a process called supercooling. At a critical temperature, this supercooled water will freeze.
LAS CRUCES - Vineyard management and wine making will be the focus of the New Mexico Grape Growers' and Wine Makers' Annual Conference, April 23-25 at the Holiday Inn Mountain View in Albuquerque.