Background and Aims: Flowering and fruitset are principal determinants of grapevine yield.
Poor fruitset is said to limit the yield of many varieties in most regions in Australia; however, …

Cell walls in crops and trees have been engineered for production of biofuels and
commodity chemicals, but engineered varieties often fail multi-year field trials and are not …

Leaf area index (LAI) and plant area index (PAI) are common and important biophysical
parameters used to estimate agronomical variables such as canopy growth, light interception …

Background The inherent recalcitrance of woody bioenergy feedstocks is a major challenge
for their use as a source of second-generation biofuel. Secondary cell walls that constitute …

Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have great promise for identifying the loci that
contribute to adaptive variation, but the complex genetic architecture of many quantitative traits …

Indicators have been used in many sustainability assessment methods, however, disagreements
over a common definition and scope for the sustainability concept have led to many …

Ten commercial Australian Shiraz wines of diverse origin and quality were hedonically rated
by 54 wine and cheese consumers and 22 wine experts. The wines were then paired with a …

Armillaria mellea is a major plant pathogen. Yet, no large-scale “-omics” data are available
to enable new studies, and limited experimental models are available to investigate …

Vitis vinifera (grapevine) is one of the most important fruit crops, both for fresh consumption
and wine and spirit production. The term terroir is frequently used in viticulture and the wine …

Plant laccases are thought to function in the oxidation of monolignols which leads to higher
order lignin formation. Only a hand‐full of laccases in plants have been functionally evaluated…