Dario Cantù, a professor in the Department of Viticulture and Enology, in the grape orchard outside the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. (Jael Mackendorf/UC Davis) Wild North ...

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 ...

At about this time next year, nearly all of the 2,800 wild, rare and domesticated grapes in a unique northern California genebank will have had their "genetic profile" or "fingerprint" taken. At about ...

Wild North American grapes are now less of a mystery after an international team of researchers led by the University of California, Davis, decoded and catalogued the genetic diversity of nine species ...