'Fingerprinting' Helps Make Great Grapes

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 09/02/2008 - 11:30

At about this time next year, nearly all of the 2,800 wild, rare and domesticated grapes in a unique northern California genebank will have had their "genetic profile" or "fingerprint" taken.


 

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