The next time you visit one of the many vineyards around the Finger Lakes region, take a closer look at the grape vines. While leaves may appear perfectly lush, healthy and green, there may be disease ...

The following is a release from the Humboldt County Administrative Office: Grape leaf samples taken by the Humboldt County Department of Agriculture have tested positive for Pierce’s disease (PD). In ...

A drone image captures a grateful message scrawled in a vineyard in the Lodi, Calif., region by growers who collaborated with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on research to detect a crop-destroying ...

A pivotal study unveils a novel approach to combating gray mold, a devastating pathogen for grapevines. By leveraging the power of CRISPR/Cas9 technology, scientists are working to develop genetically ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Removing not only a diseased grapevine but the two vines on either side of it can reduce the incidence of leafroll disease, a long-standing bane of vineyards around the world, Cornell ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist ...

M. Andrew Walker, Ph.D., appears to have found what he was looking for – new varieties of grapes which resists a costly and persistent vine disease and produces grapes that turn into pretty good wine.

Australian wineries are on alert to combat a potentially devastating grape disease previously thought to be confined to Asia. Grape Vine Leaf Rust was discovered in Darwin last year by a plant ...

Winter can be harsh on plants, so interference might seem like exacerbation. This not the case with this fruiting plant that ...

Cutting-edge NASA imaging technology can detect early signs of a plant virus that, if unaddressed, often proves devastating for wineries and grape growers, new research has found. While the ...