Broadcaster Press 5 January 3, 2017 www.broadcasteronline.com SDSU Researchers Analyze How Kick Off the New Year Serving Those Who Served Grafting Affects Cold-Hardy Grapes BROOKINGS - Celebrating the holidays with a glass of wine produced from grapes grown in South Dakota—that’s a tradition that South Dakota State University research supports. For more than 20 years, professor Anne Fennell of the agronomy, horticulture and plant science department has been doing research on cold-hardy grapes to help South Dakota grape producers carve out a niche in the American wine industry. Through a new five-year, $4.6 million National Science Foundation project, Fennell and assistant professor Qin Ma, whose expertise is in bioinformatics and computational systems biology, will focus on how grafting affects cold-climate grapes. Grapes are commonly grafted, so the root system is genetically different from the top portion that produces the stems, leaves and fruit, referred to as the scion, explained Fennell. The practice allows producers to graft a desirable variety of grapes onto rootstock that is resistant to pests and diseases. “Though grafting is a standard way of propagating grapes worldwide, we don’t have a good handle on how that rootstock affects the scion,” Fennell noted. However, she pointed out that researchers know that the genotype of the rootstock impacts the characteristics expressed in the scion, known as its phenotype. She and Ma are part of a multi-institutional research team investigating how the genetic makeup of the grapevine root and variations in climate affect the characteristics expressed in the stem, leaves and fruit. What they discover may help plants adapt to a changing climate. Fennell will focus on data generation, while Ma will do data mining and modeling using computational resources available Please join the American Legion Auxilgreeting tag. iary Unit 1 of Vermillion in assisting the DeA Buddy Bag may include personal through the state’s collaborative research partment of South Dakota American Legion hygiene products, hand towel set, shower center, Biosystems Networks and TranslaAuxiliary and partners in the fifth annual shoes or slippers, socks, hat, gloves, scarf tional Research and Extreme Science and Veterans’ Holiday Relief Drive through Jan. set; shopping or salon gift card sealed with Engineering Discovery Environment. 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Additional information and Research Unit of the U.S. Department of batteries, alarm clock, shower curtain with statewide drop-off locations available at: Agriculture in Geneva, New York. rings, bath towel set, bathroom tissue, SDLegionaux.org, Autumn Simunek at Veter“This is a very complex study; each dishes, eating utensils, dish soap and a dish ansHRD@gmail.com, or 605.890.3093. facet of the project addresses a different towel set frosted with clear wrap, bow, and type of rootstock-scion interaction,” she explained. First, the Missouri researchers will find out how three different rootstocks affect variation in the grape scion and how varying amounts of water affect rootstockPRECISION PAINTING scion interactions. 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