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The Mystery of the Fall Colors, Clones, Celebrate Washington Wine

Disease Detectives Tackle the Mystery of the Fall Colors WSU plant pathologist Naidu Rayapati and his colleagues are carefully unraveling the intricate biochemistry and molecular biology of grapevine leafroll disease. Grapevine leafroll is a complex viral disease that can cause a marked decline in grapevine vigor, grape quality, and fruit productivity, according to Rayapati. The […]

Best Paper (Again!), New V&E Newsletter, Clean Plants

WSU/USDA-ARS Collaboration Yields Another “Best Paper Award” For the second year in a row, WSU researchers and their USDA colleagues based at the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser have won a Best Viticulture Paper Award from the American Society for Enology and Viticulture. USDA-ARS researcher Julie M. Tarara, based at WSU’s Prosser […]