Vitis Underground

In the multi-year “Root to Shoot” @vitisroots project, a team led by @ajmiller4233 analyzed 7K+ Chambourcin leaves from vines ungrafted & grafted to 3 rootstocks. Rootstock and above-ground environment interact to modulate leaf composition. #graperesearch bit.ly/3elBGbD

Check out the latest work from Vitis Underground postdoc, @EigenZach!

Heading home from #ASEV in San Diego - grapes and wine all the time! The future of wine in a changing climate, smoke effects on wine, optimizing site, rootstock and scion combinations, cover crops in vineyards, and so much more - happy to share our @vitisroots work too!! 🍇🍷

A long-term study shows that rootstocks act to modulate growth and other scion traits like the ratio of yield to vegetative growth, and can act like climate to affect growth rings, which can be used to monitor genetic, environmental effects. #graperesearch bit.ly/3lH0Rpr

Differences between 420A vs 3309C rootstock on scion shoot extension of Cabernet Sauvignon irrigated to 50% ET crop @UCDVEN Oakville Station. @sbarros_ @aleclevin @ucanr @ucdavisCAES @grapetweets

Congratulations to the new Dr. Joel Swift @PingSwift on a terrific dissertation defense today @SLU_Official @SLUBiology @DanforthCenter! #firstgen college grad now PhD Joel studied the grapevine microbiome & made wonderful contributions to our grapevine grafting @vitisroots team.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Zach Harris @EigenZach who beautifully and convincingly defended his dissertation today @SLU_Official @SLUBiology @DanforthCenter! #firstgen college student, now PhD, celebrating here with his family. Great job Zach!!! 🍇

I am defending my dissertation on April 29th! The public seminar will begin at 9AM CST taking place both IRL and over Zoom. If you would like to attend, please DM me for details.

It's the final week of the #GraftingTheGrape exhibition @MobotMuseum (closes March 31!). Especial thanks to @ajmiller4233 and her @vitisroots lab for sharing their research on grapevines and grafting to educate the public on this important perennial crop! perennialplantdiversity.org/outreach.html

#GraftingTheGrape Blog post #DiscoverAndShare about the different artworks featured in the exhibition @MobotMuseum on view until March 31, 2022! #MobotToYou discoverandshare.org/2022/03/17/gra…

#GraftingTheGrape Filmmaker Orlando V. Thompson gets you behind the scenes of the making of the artworks in the special exhibition, including key research shared by @ajmiller4233 @vitisroots @CygnusPlantXray @DanforthCenter with the artists #MobotToYou youtube.com/watch?v=m8hWn_…

#GraftingTheGrape Download the exhibition publication (PDF) designed by @studiopowell here missouribotanicalgarden.org/Portals/0/Graf…

Are you interested in teaching? We're hiring a lecturer in Viticulture, 100% teaching, MS and experience in vineyard management required, PhD preferred. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/21360 #viticulture Please RT!

#MobotToYou Get behind-the-scenes of the #GraftingTheGrape exhibition @mobotmuseum featuring scientist @ajmiller4233 @vitisroots and artists Dornith Doherty, Lei Han and Lorraine Walsh, thanks to filmmaker Orlando V. Thompson youtu.be/m8hWn_mmS5k

"Temporal & environmental factors interact with rootstock genotype to shape leaf elemental composition in grafted grapevines" Led by @SLUBiology @DanforthCenter PhD Candidate Zach Harris @EigenZach and friends biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. 3 years sampling @MUResearchCtr in SW MO🍇