Professor of Viticulture, Chair of Horticulture, Cornell University. All about science in the vineyard and winery.

Joined June 2014
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Justine Vanden Heuvel retweeted
🍇Coming to a vineyard near you: New, highly disease-resistant grape varieties & autonomous robots to evaluate crops – and guide management – leaf by leaf, down to the chemical level. With @kaitlinmgold, @Yu_Cosmo_Jiang, @reischnewyork, @USDA_ARS news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
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Sour rot research | Good Fruit Grower #viticulture goodfruit.com/sour-rot-resea…

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Justine Vanden Heuvel retweeted
A @Cornell-led team evaluated the nighttime application of UV-C light to suppress 3 grapevine diseases—powdery and downy mildew, and sour rot—on Chardonnay and Vignoles in NY vineyards. In some cases, disease incidence was reduced to nil. #graperesearch bit.ly/3NCQ3Gn

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Justine Vanden Heuvel retweeted
In this @NapaWineAcademy article, @jamiegoode breaks down #sensoryscience. He explains that, of the 800 to 1,000 #aromaticcompounds found in #wine, not all are smellable. But they may still affect your nose--er, #retronasalolfaction. #graperesearch bit.ly/3gQfQON
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Views from the vineyard. Experimental foliar sprays for cold hardiness and beautiful senescence patterns.
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Justine Vanden Heuvel retweeted
An extreme cold snap in CO's #GrandValleyAVA in Oct 2020 killed 70% of vinifera. But the #coldhardy vines some growers were experimenting with survived. Hybrids have grown from 1% of the state's plantings in the early 2000s to 20% today. #graperesearch bit.ly/3CmnEiy
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Are you a student with African-American heritage and interested in Horticulture? Great opportunity to earn a PhD at Cornell! Please RT blogs.cornell.edu/sips/2022/…

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A very scary pest #viticulture
Spotted lantern flies spotted high on a tree off the Appalachian trail near Albany, Pennsylvania
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What 🍇 fruit quality and 🍷 quality attributes are controlled by the root? I don’t know but we are trying to figure that out. 150 mini vilifications on our rootstock mapping population. Hopefully we don’t make 150 nasty shots of Marquette, a few smelled a bit past prime….
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Justine Vanden Heuvel retweeted
I have an open postdoc position to work in phenomics genomics for grape breeding at @UCDVEN. The job description is here recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05253 and on our lab website (see profile). If you have any questions plz email or DM me. And yes, it's open to international applicants.

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This is bad news #viticulture
Spotted lanternfly have been confirmed in Buffalo agriculture.ny.gov/news/stat…. @NYSIPM joins @nyagandmarkets in asking all Western, Central, Upstate and Finger Lakes residents to report sightings immediately at agriculture.ny.gov/reportSLF… @CornellAgriTech @SmallFarmsProg @CornellCALS
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Spontaneous dry-on-vine is a newer trait being pursued by #raisin #grape breeders as it offers considerable labor savings compared to other varieties whose grapes must be separated from the vine to dry
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Justine Vanden Heuvel retweeted
After 20 years of evaluation, @UMNHorticulture will this year release its 6th cold-hardy winegrape variety, to be called Clarion. Formerly MN 1220, it's a white variety suited to Zone 5 climates like IA and WI. #graperesearch bit.ly/3Rb6lGS

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