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The microbes that could protect grapevines from climate change

Grapes – and the wine industry that relies upon them – are threatened by extreme weather events like heatwaves, but spraying them with marine microbes could help them adapt.
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University of Western Australia looking into grapevine dormancy and climate change response

Work into grapevine bud dormancy could have wider reaching positive impacts for other crops to help deal with climate change.

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Warmer California winters may fuel grapevine-killing Pierce’s disease

Scientists have long known infected grapevines are more likely to recover in colder climates. Now they worry milder winters will worsen the impact of the disease.

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