As the use of chemical fungicides has raised environmental concerns, biological control
agents have attracted interest as an alternative to chemical fungicides for plant-disease …

The wine industry is focused on the producing wine mostly from European grapevine
varieties (Vitis vinifera L.). China has experienced a significant growth of the vineyard …

The north temperate region was characterized by a warm climate and a rich thermophilic
flora before the Eocene, but early diversifications of the temperate biome under global …

Natural hybridization and introgression are central evolutionary processes in grape genus
(Vitis). On the other hand, the interspecific relationships among grapes, the directionality of …

Vine vigor or vegetative growth is an important factor related to berry quality and vinicultural
training management, but brassinosteroid (BR)-induced molecular mechanisms underlying …

Background Grapes are one of the world's most valuable crops and most are made into
wine. Grapes belong to the genus Vitis, which includes over 60 inter-fertile species. The …

BACKGROUND Koshu, a hybrid of Vitis vinifera L. and V. davidii Foex, is the most popular
indigenous cultivar for wine production in Japan. However, little is known about the potential …

The mineral composition of wine depends on the soil where the grapes are grown, and
therefore has been used to distinguish the geographical origin of different wines. However …

Dense leaf hairs of grapevines have been known to act as a preexisting defense structure
for preventing the incidence of grapevine downy mildew, because the pathogen …

Vitis vinifera cv. Koshu is an indigenous grape cultivar that has been cultivated for more than
a thousand years in Japan and one of the most important cultivars in white winemaking. To …