Appellation Cornell
News from Cornell’s Viticulture and Enology Program
May 2019
In this issue:
- Faculty focus: Five Questions for Jennifer Russo
- Student focus: Elizabeth Cieniewicz: From summer scholar to red blotch scholar
- Grapes 101: How important are grapevine trunk diseases in New York?
- Research in plain English: A rapid, sensitive and inexpensive method for detection of grapevine red blotch virus
- Research in plain English: Construction of a high-density linkage map and QTL detection of downy mildew resistance in Vitis aestivalis-derived ‘Norton’
- Events, news briefs and more.
Featured video:
Scheid Shoot Thinning Demo – LERGP Podcast #115. This video shows a demonstration of variable rate mechanical shoot thinning in a California Central Coast Pinot Noir vineyard. There is also a second video in the series — Lodi Gallo Shoot Thinning Demo.