Volume 25 Number 2 Article 6 Pages: 41-43
Year 1971 Month 4
Title: Nomenclature of the 'Salt Creek' Grape
Authors: N.H. Loomis and L.A. Lider
Citation
Abstract:
A grape rootstock commonly called
'Salt Creek' is very resistant to nematodes
and phylloxera.
Vines grafted
on it are extremely vigorous.
It has
been used extensively in California as
a rootstock for Vitis vinifera cultivars,
particularly on the lighter soils where
weaker rootstocks fail.
Lider (4) noted in 1960 that this
rootstock was a V. champini grape,
and not the same as the original 'Salt
Creek' variety derived from V. doaniana,
as introduced by T.V. Munson
in the nineteenth century.
There is an early reference to 'Salt
Creek' as V. champini by Nougaret
(7) in 1923. Since V. champini and
V. doaniana are entirely different species,
the V. champini 'Salt Creek'
grape rootstock appears to be misnamed.
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