At one time, Thompsons were the No. 1 table grape, raisin grape and wine grape in California. In a way, that very ubiquity became the Thompson’s downfall. After so long at the top of the heap, they ...

Overview of the T2T and gap-free genome of Thompson Seedless. The Circos plot depicts gene features at 500-kb intervals across the 19 chromosomes of Thompson Seedless. From the outer to the inner ring ...

Seedlessness in table grapes is a key breeding target, mainly results from stenospermocarpy, linked to the Thompson Seedless grape variety. Advances in genetic research have identified the VviAGL11 ...

Although grapes come in many colors of the rainbow, when shopping for this sweet fruit at the grocery store, it usually comes down to red or green. Still, choosing can be confusing with the sheer ...

The Community Market in Santa Rosa the other day displayed a stack of plastic containers of Thomcord grapes, which sounded like a hybrid of Thompson Seedless and Concord grapes. A little research ...

Grapes are berries that grow on vines in the Vitis genus, with most table grapes belonging to Vitis vinifera (native to Europe and the Mediterranean) or Vitis labrusca (native to North America). Here, ...

I received an email inquiring about pruning practices and immediately began to ruminate on the possibility of a connection between the act of pruning and the fruit known as a prune. It turns out there ...

* Apkarian Family Farm. Reedley. Concord Seedless, Muscat of Alexandria, Princess, Red Globe, Summer Muscat, “natural” Thompson Seedless. At Thousand Oaks farmers market (Wilbur Road and Thousand Oaks ...