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The CRISPR revolution and grapevine
Insights and research
Genome editing is a catchall phrase to describe the technologies that are available to alter an organism’s DNA. The most promising of these technologies is CRISPR, which is an acronym for ‘Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats’ and occurs in nature as a bacterial ‘immune system’.
Detection and classification of grapevine stem pitting-associated virus
Insights and research
The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic diversity of GRSPaV in South Africa and to evaluate the success of biological indexing as a detection tool
Can gene expression shed light on the "old vine" character of wine?
Insights and research
PHOTO: Hendrik Höller (Wosa Library).
The Pinotage genome - stress response genes are a major source of inter-cultivar genetic diversity in grapevine
Innovation
PHOTO: Hendrik Höller (Wosa Library).
Virus diversity associated with grapevine leafroll disease
Vineyard, cellar and production
PHOTO: Hanno van Schalkwyk.