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Bud fruitfulness in the ground with green grapes.

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Bud Fruitfulness and Yield As grapes enter dormancy, the maximum crop potential for the next growing season has already been determined. Each compound bud has the potential to produce three shoots from the primary, secondary, and tertiary buds...
  • Food Science
  • Viticulture and Enology
  • Food

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Conversion Factors: From Vineyard to Bottle As with any question of this nature, there are a lot of variables to consider. What kind of grapes are we talking about? Have they swelled up with rain or dehydrated because of sun or noble rot? How...

  • Food Science
  • Viticulture and Enology
  • Food
Three cups of red wine in a table.

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Formal and Informal Wine Sensory Evaluation Swirl, sniff, sip, and swallow: most wine drinkers know the routine for wine evaluation. But what about sensory evaluation in the lab, wine cellar, tasting room, and wine competitions? Here we review...
  • Food Science
  • Viticulture and Enology
  • Food
Two hemp plants growing in a garden.

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Cannabinoids, naturally occurring compounds found in hemp plants, may have evolved to deter pests from chewing on them, according to experiments that showed higher cannabinoid concentrations in hemp leaves led to proportionately less damage from...

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
A man smiles while examining apples at a market.

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Cornell researchers are helping to improve and expand a program that makes fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetable more affordable for New York state families with low incomes.

  • Food
  • Department of Communication
  • Agriculture
A globe.

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Applications are open for Rare and Distinctive Language Fellowships, which offer students intensive summer study in modern languages that are not commonly taught, including Zulu, Finnish, Yiddish, Sinhala, Tibetan and Burmese.

  • Communication
A row of lit candles in a black room.

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Gene German, professor emeritus of agricultural economics, died Oct. 9. He was 90.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food
A man, Christopher Mahn, holds up a float coat he wore as a mechanic on an aircraft carrier in a classroom. Other military items litter the table in front of him.

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A current student veteran has been exploring the stories of Cornell's military veterans through a collection of interviews and memorabilia.