The plant: Seventeen years — that’s how long it took for my New England transplant self to stop yearning for fall. Whenever the calendar page turned to September, the ache for cool weather, apple ...

Vines, vines, everywhere vines. They seem to be flourishing, occupying every niche possible, growing on trees and fences or trailing along telephone wires. Are they part of nature’s bounty or a ...

I remember my mom used to go down the country roads and pick wild grapes for jelly making. I believe she called them Mustang grapes, but that is too much of a stretch for me to claim I remember the ...

Wild grapes are kind of a pain to work with — each individual fruit is more than half seed and skin, so you need to collect a lot in order to do anything with them. Picking the fruit from the stems is ...

Justin Scheiner / Texas A&M University It's a fantasy of indulgent decadence: sitting under a shady arbor, idly reaching for luscious round grapes, and popping them one-by-one into your mouth. It's ...

People interbred domesticated vines with wild fruit. This is an Inside Science story. Many of the varieties of grapes used in today's wines are hundreds of years old. Genetic analysis shows that ...

Plant experts at UC Davis have defined the genetic basis of sex determination in grapevines, one of the oldest and most valuable crops worldwide. In new research published in the journal Nature ...