Manual harvesting remains a major bottleneck in muscadine grape production, accounting for up to 40% of production costs. This study tackles that challenge by identifying the key traits and genetic ...

Matthew Terrell was following the fruit map published by Concrete Jungle when he stumbled on some muscadines. The purple ovoids were lying on the ground in a corner of the wooded Frazer Center ...

Florida is home to several native grape species that belong to the genus Vitis. The most common and famous native grape is Vitis rotundifolia, also known as the muscadine grape. Muscadine grapes are ...

Bannerman Vineyard in Pender County is celebrating 50 years of growing muscadine grapes. The family-owned farm is hosting a 50th-anniversary event on September 13 in Burgaw. After scaling back ...

DARLINGTON COUNTY — South Carolina should be set for a good muscadine harvest this year. Plenty of water during the spring season has paved the way for what should be a high-yield, high-sugar batch of ...

For more than a century, fruit breeders have been chasing a deceptively simple goal: a better grape. Not just sweeter or bigger, but seedless. At the University of Arkansas, that effort is now moving ...

You can’t travel far in Northeastern North Carolina without passing a home with muscadine grapes growing in the backyard. Many of those vines we see have been growing for decades and the care of them ...

Late summer to early fall is muscadine season in the South. Muscadines (Vitis rotundifolia) are a native grape and are known to have been cultivated by American Indians for hundreds of years. They are ...

When I lived in Atlanta, purple and golden orbs would start to appear just after the heat reached its peak in August, lining the path on the long walks I took from my apartment to the park I ...