Scientists have identified the DNA markers that determine grape flower sex. In the process, they also pinpointed the genetic origins of the perfect flower. Wines and table grapes exist thanks to a ...

DORENA — Shovels in hand, a group of 15 middle school-aged kids from Dorena School took time out of their morning recently to plant Oregon grape at a nearby park. The kids dug deep enough to give the ...

There is no shortage of yellow these days, with gorse blazing its mustard yellow on every roadside in a truly remarkable display and the great rush of yellow in gardens with forsythia, now just going ...

RIVER FALLS, Wis. -- It takes a hearty soul to live through a typical Wisconsin winter. It takes an even heartier grape to lie dormant through months of snow and cold and bloom again in the spring.

ITHACA, N.Y. - Wines and table grapes exist thanks to a genetic exchange so rare that it's only happened twice in nature in the last 6 million years. And since the domestication of the grapevine 8,000 ...