Funding for this research was provided by the USDA-NIFA Specialty Crops Research Initiative(Award Nos 2011-51181-30635 and 2011-51181-30850)through the VitisGen project and the Northern Grapes Project,as well as by the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station and the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station through the Hatch projects;Funding was also provided by the National Science Foundation IOS(Award No.1238812).
Grapevine(Vitis spp.)contains a wealth of phytochemicals that have received considerable attention due to healthpromoting properties and biological activities as phytoalexins.To date,the genetic basis of the quantitat...