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January 13, 2014

Geography has impact on grapevine moth's success in French vineyards
Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2014
'Location, location, location' is an adage also true for the European grapevine moth, it seems. Research led by Fanny Vogelweith of the Universite de Bourgogne and INRA Bordeaux-Aquitaine in France has shown that these pests are better adapted and more successful in certain French wine-growing regions than in others, because of the variety of grape on which they occur and the abundance of their natural enemies around them. The findings were published in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften - The Scien ... read more

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