Using mobile DNA to increase grapevine diversity

Abstract

This paper was the winning entrant for the David Jackson Prize for 2013, awarded by the Center for Viticulture and Oenology, Lincoln University. The paper focuses on the molecular mechanisms by which genetic diversity naturally accumulated within grapevines and the affect that environmental stress events have on the rate at which this occurs. It goes on to report on research being done at Lincoln University that seeks to use this knowledge to produce novel elite clones.