The Science of Grapevines, Third Edition reflects the latest insights into cultivar
relationships, vascular transport, hormone action, and stress responses of grapevines …

Chimeras–organisms that are composed of cells of more than one genotype–captured the
human imagination long before they were formally described and used in the laboratory …

A grapevine variety consists of an array of clones descended by vegetative propagation from
a single selected vine grown from a single seedling. A majority of the clones within a variety …

Sugar content is an important trait of fleshy fruit, and elevating Suc levels is a major goal in
horticultural crop breeding. Here, we examined the sugar content in two varieties of the …

Grape (Vitis vinifera) color somatic variants that can be used to develop new grapevine
cultivars occasionally appear associated with deletion events of uncertain origin. To …

Somatic mutation is a natural mechanism which allows plant growers to develop new
cultivars. As a source of variation within a uniform genetic background, it also represents an …

Perennial crops represent important fresh and processed food sources worldwide, but
advancements in breeding perennials are often impeded due to their very nature. The …

Paradoxically, continuous vegetative multiplication of traditional grapevine cultivars aimed to
maintain cultivar attributes in this highly heterozygous species ends in the accumulation of …

We report here that pink grape berries were obtained by a short insertion in the intron of the
MybA1 gene, a gene that regulates grape berry color. Genetic variation was detected among …

The improvement of fruit quality, in particular sugar content, has been a major goal of plant
breeding programmes for many years. Here, 2 varieties of the Ussurian pear (Pyrus …