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 ...

These grapes are growing behind my house. Are they edible? They’re about the size of a pea. This is a wild grape vine, probably fox grapes. The fruit are edible when ripe, though extremely tart for ...

Dario Cantù, a professor in the Department of Viticulture and Enology, in the grape orchard outside the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. (Jael Mackendorf/UC Davis) Wild North ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My mother, who grew up outside Boston, loved telling the story about one of her early visits "up home" to visit my father’s family ...

As climate change threatens global agricultural systems, understanding the adaptability of wild plant relatives is crucial. This study explores the potential distribution shifts of cultivated and wild ...

It is probably a toss-up as to which is ahead in the marathon to take over The Berkshires — Oriental bittersweet, Riverbank Grape or Virginia creeper. The bittersweet with its yellow and orange fruits ...

This week, Central New York gardening writer Carol T. Bradford responds to two reader questions. Dear Carol: I have some wild grape vines growing, but only one of them has fruit. There are others ...

A team of scientists—including UC Irvine's Distinguished Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Brandon Gaut and UC Davis's Professors of Viticulture & Enology Dario Cantù and Andy Walker—has ...

In the mid-1800s the wine industry in France was teetering on failure because grapevines were dying by the wagonload, but a transplanted Texan, and wild grapes from Bell County, saved it all. Actually ...

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 ...