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 ...

My mother, who grew up outside Boston, loved telling the story about one of her early visits "up home" to visit my father’s family in rural Whitefield, Maine. This happened in the 1940s. By then, ...

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 ...