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 ...

There are millions of plants on our planet, and inevitably, species from the same family end up looking alike. Wild plants aren't pre-labeled like produce found in a grocery store, and identifying ...

For Washingtonian magazine food writer Todd Kliman, the mystery started one night when he saw “something wild, something alive” in the glass of red wine he was drinking. His interest, and palate, ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Wine-grape expert Bill Shoemaker has taken to the roadsides of Illinois in search of wild grapes that he hopes can be crossed with their more refined cousins to create a tasty and ...

Finding and harvesting wild grape leaves may feel like work. Think of it as a treasure hunt with you as the victor. Start your hunt away from heavily trafficked and areas that might have been sprayed.

Wine grapes shown growing at the vineyard near the Robert Mondavi Institute of Food and Wine at UC Davis. (Greg Urquiaga/UC Davis) A team of scientists has made a significant breakthrough in the ...

Fall is an exciting time of year for those of us who love the outdoors. As our favorite hunting, trapping, and trout seasons open, we find ourselves spending even more time in the woods and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This study successfully created transgenic plants of V. vinifera Thompson Seedless which overexpressed VqSTS6, cloned from Chinese wild type V. quinquangularis accession Danfeng-2. Western blot and ...