Volume 51 Number 3 Article 28
Year 1997 Month 7
Title: Breeding Muscadine and Southern Bunch Grapes
Author: R. Lane
Abstract:
Muscadine and bunch grape breeding has a long history in the southern US. After several attempts at
growing non-adapted bunch grapes in several southern locations, breeding programs were begun in the late
1800s and into the 1900s to improve muscadine and bunch grape cultivars.
Major advances in these programs
include perfect-flowered, large-fruited, high-quality muscadines.
Bunch grape cultivar improvements include
Pierce's disease resistant bunch grapes, and adapted seedless cultivars for the Upper South.
Breeding program
reductions in recent years will greatly limit subsequent progress in the development of additional improved
muscadine and southern-adapted bunch grapes.
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