vines

Protecting wine grapes from heat and drought

...xperiencing. Particle film did not prevent sunburn on exposed fruit when vines were under the most stressful growing conditions, but did increase the weig...ield potential of the vines, but it did not protect against sun damage when vines were grown under deficit irrigation. The cost-benefit of particle film must...

Red wine and grape juice help defend against food-borne diseases, according to MU researchers

...d wines; the pathogens were. In lab tests, Mustapha and Das focused on ethanol, pH levels and reseveratrol, which is a phytochemical found in grape vines and the skin of grapes. It also is responsible for the red coloring in red wines. They found that in addition to ethanol, pH and reseveratrol also may...

Wine Woos World as Trade Fair Opens

... would be soaked up by sales, and cautioned against the European Union's current focus on intensive pulling up -- or grubbing up, as it is known -- of vines as part of its new reform package. Beynat believes the matter must be decided on a regional basis. Other predictions for 2010 from the stud...

Australian Grape Glut Dries Up as Drought Bites

... the ground is so dry it would be useless to plant vines while in others the drought has left plants stunte... drought just continues as is, we are going to see vines that are struggling to produce fruit at all," he t...armer than it is. If we go up by six degrees, your vines are going to need more water. "What's goin...

Leaf Roll Disease a Cause of Concern to Wine Growers

...by bugs and affects the yield and quality of grapevines//. But most of the winegrowers have bought the national grafted grapevine which are tested vines and are free from the virus. New Zealand Winegrowers science and innovation manager Philip Manson said that a lot of research is being done to underst...

Grapes are not sour…

...et Savignon, Sangiovesse and Croatina grape varieties. Iriti's team have also shown that melatonin content can be enhanced in grapes by treating vines with a plant vaccine Benzothiadiazole. Richard Wurtman of the brain and cognitive science department at MIT is unconvinced, however, and believe...

vines in Biological News

Climbing to new heights in the forest canopy

... Although it is possible to observe the superficial differences among the vines in their climbing methods, it is more difficult to observe structural trait...ent research in Amazonian forests has suggested that the abundance of woody vines is increasing relative to tree species, possibly as a result of human-induc...

Virus-resistant grapevines

...ne. Bugs such as the vine louse or the rust mite, fungi such as mildew, or viruses such as the "Grapevine fanleaf virus" (GFLV for short) can give the vines a hard time. The GFLV infects the grapevine and causes fanleaf disease, resulting in deformed and very yellowed leaves, smaller grapes and crop loss. ...

Ferns took to the trees and thrived

...lysis shows that there was a fourth, roughly corresponding with the development of epiphytism. So, as rain forests developed and tropical trees and vines clawed past each other to reach heavenward, they took the ferns up along with them. Thousands of new fern species evolved to take advantage of all the...

Flight of the bumble (and honey) bee

...cate that significant movement also occurred across rows in both directions (north and south) from the donor plot", he remarked. Because watermelon vines grow in multiple directions, including across rows, bees can easily move across rows if the next closest flower is in that direction instead of down t...

Favorite Thanksgiving dish gets 'upscale' breeding

...y Research Center in Chatsworth, Vorsa led an effort to develop a cranberry plant that delivered higher yields, ripened earlier in the season, and had vines that grew faster and resisted weeds and disease better than previous varieties. Until now, growers cultivated selections from wild bogs or relied on f...

Vine invasion? UWM ecologist looks at coexistence of trees and lianas

... Among the hundreds of species of woody vines that University of WisconsinMilwaukee ecologist St... biological sciences at UWM who specializes in the vines and forest diversity. They are essentially stru...lants remove C02 from the atmosphere and store it, vines do not sequester as much as trees do so...

Plant parasite 'wiretaps' host

...ew ways to combat parasites that attack crop plants. Professor Neelima Sinha and colleagues at the UC Davis Section of Plant Biology studied dodder vines growing on tomato plants in the lab. They found that RNA molecules from the host could be found in the dodder up to a foot (30 cm) from the point wher...

Research suggests parts of UK could be too hot for wine making by 2080

... temperatures could mean some parts of southern England are too hot to grow vines for making wine by 2080, according to a new book launched today (26 May 200...ast areas of the UK including Yorkshire and Lancashire will be able to grow vines for wines like Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon which are currently only culti...

Research suggests parts of UK could be too hot for wine-making by 2080

... temperatures could mean some parts of southern England are too hot to grow vines for making wine by 2080, according to a new book launched today (26 May 200...ast areas of the UK including Yorkshire and Lancashire will be able to grow vines for wines like Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon which are currently only culti...

Study results: new recommendations for grape growers

...ction. For the industry, knowing where to monitor soil moisture to best reflect plant-available water means that there is less chance of stressing the vines by under-watering. Not only can this adversely affect fruit yield, it also has the potential to reduce plant cold-hardiness, making the plants more li...

vines in Biological Technology

Gift Aids Professor's Research into Vein Treatment

... The senior design project team of Courtney Maxey, Lindsey Hobdy and Crystal Condra worked on the initial design. Hyun and biomedical students Rob vines and Matthew Bradley worked to perfect it in conjunction with one of his research collaborators, Kenneth Harper, M.D., of Vein Associates of the South....

vines in Biological Definition

Convergent evolution

...a common origin. Another example is the aerial rootlets found in English ivy ( Hedera helix ) and wintercreeper ( Euonymus fortunei ) (and other vines ). These rootlets are not derived from a common ancestor, but developed independently as an effective way to cling to whatever support the vine is cl...

DNA

...lecule of heredity", pieces of DNA as people typically think of them are not single molecules. Rather, they are pairs of molecules, which entwine like vines to form a double helix (see the illustration at the right). Each vine-like molecule is a strand of DNA: a chemically linked chain of nucleoti...

Convergent evolution

...a common origin. Another example is the aerial rootlets found in English ivy ( Hedera helix ) and wintercreeper ( Euonymus fortunei ) (and other vines ). These rootlets are not derived from a common ancestor, but developed independently as an effective way to cling to whatever support the vine is cl...

vines in Biological Dictionary

Secondary root

...rmis. ... called the primary root while its branches are called secondary or lateral roots . ... Pumpkin Nook - How to care for your pumpkin vines for big , healthy platns and fruit. ... This will promote secondary root growth if you leave the soil moist. ... Roots grow both in length (p...

Periderm

... Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots of woody plants. Plants with bark include trees, woody vines and shrubs. Bark refers to all the tissues outside of the vascular cambium and is a nontechnical term. It overlays... periderm ( ) n. The outer...

Cork cambium

...d many herbaceous dicots, gymnosperms... Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots of woody plants. Plants with bark include trees, woody vines and shrubs. Bark refers to all the tissues outside of the vascular cambium and is a nontechnical term. It overlays... Cork cambium summary wi...

Bark

... Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots of woody plants. Plants with bark include trees, woody vines and shrubs. Bark refers to all the tissues outside of the vascular cambium and is a nontechnical term. It overlays... Barking is a noise most c...