As the growing season progresses in Wisconsin vineyards, it is a good time to revisit an early-season disease that can have ...

Scientists at NASA have successfully deployed an advanced airborne imaging instrument to help grape growers identify the early signs of a devastating crop-killing disease. The disease, grapevine ...

Grapes are a crop susceptible to a number of diseases that, if left untreated, result in significant decreases in crop yields — which farmers have long tried to avoid.

Grape disease is threatening your wine. This robot could fight it. : ... leaves and fruit of Cornell AgriTech's vineyards, rolling down each row and scanning for mildew.

The leafroll virus is primarily spread across vineyards by the endemic mealybug, and once the disease takes hold the only treatment is removal — costing the U.S. wine and grape industry some $3 ...

While the breakthrough is good news for the wine and grape industry, which loses billions of dollars a year to the crop-ruining disease, it could eventually help global agriculture as a whole.

In the 1920’s, grapes covered the Florida landscape, but Pierce’s disease – among other factors – wiped out most of the industry. The disease causes leaves to wilt, turn yellow and fall ...