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Earlier this week while assisting a resident just south of Lufkin, I noticed a wild grapevine with numerous clusters of small ...
The muscadine grape possesses one of the highest antioxidant levels among fruits; yet, the effect of this fruit on mammalian metabolic systems has not received significant attention. To examine the ...
Fleming, a food science Ph.D. student in the U of A's Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, recently received an Austrian Marshall Plan Scholarship to strengthen her research ...
Only the muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia) is native to most of Georgia, though others can be grown. The purple Concord grapes, which many are familiar with, are American fox grapes (Vitis labrusca).
While table grapes (grown for eating, not production) are grown in greenhouses all around the world to maintain a constant supply of grapes, farmers markets around the United States pile up with ...
These grapes are part of the Vitis rotundifolia genus, an aptly named genus since Muscadine berries are large, rotund orbs of fruit. Muscadines grow in tight bunches on woody vines and have gorgeous ...
These grapes are part of the Vitis rotundifolia genus, an aptly named genus since Muscadine berries are large, rotund orbs of fruit.
Wild Muscadine grapevine, Vitis rotundifolia . The dark, round grapes provide a beautiful contrast with the twisted branches and bright green foliage. ©Donna Bollanbach/Shutterstock.com How to Care ...
Muscadine grapes contain high concentration of polyphenols that are known to be involved in plant defense. Resveratrol encoded by stilbene synthase (STS) is one of the important phenolic compounds ...
There are few rural residential properties across the Southeast that do not have a grapevine growing somewhere. Be it in an older style overhead arbor, a newer single trellis arrangement, or just ...