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Climate change and wine grapes: Go, stay or change?

As the planet warms, wine-growing regions face an uncertain future. Should they double-down on what they grow or do something entirely different?

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
hand holding grape cluster with rot

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Sour rot is a potentially devastating, late-season bunch rot of particular concern on tight clustered grapevine varieties in warm, wet years. This causes the disease to have sporadic effects on grape harvests, with some years showing only small...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Viticulture and Enology
hand holding grapes (left) & grape leaves with UV blotches (right)

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  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Viticulture and Enology
tops of the interior of 2 cans, showing different colors & textures

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A case study on the importance of terminology: A canned beverage producer received and used cans from a supplier without issues over multiple months of storage. However, without warning, several runs of cans in 2024 showed evidence of hydrogen...
  • Food Science
  • Viticulture and Enology
2 pics of diseased, unusable grapes on the vines

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently reviewing the registration of the fungicide Mancozeb, with proposed changes that may impact its use in grapes nationwide. This includes the potential removal of grapes from the approved...
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Viticulture and Enology
  • Crops

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