As climate change threatens global agricultural systems, understanding the adaptability of wild plant relatives is crucial.

These grapes are growing behind my house. Are they edible? They’re about the size of a pea. This is a wild grape vine, probably fox grapes. The fruit are edible when ripe, though extremely tart for ...

Wine grapes shown growing at the vineyard near the Robert Mondavi Institute of Food and Wine at UC Davis. (Greg Urquiaga/UC Davis) A team of scientists has made a significant breakthrough in the ...

Grapevine diseases like white rot pose growing threats to global viticulture, leading to major yield losses and economic setbacks. While cultivated varieties boast desirable fruit traits, they often ...

Chicken of the woods growing on an ash stump. My wife, Elaine, and I are enthusiastic pursuers of wild edibles throughout the year. These natural foods are healthy, tasty, and, well, free. What’s more ...

My mother, who grew up outside Boston, loved telling the story about one of her early visits "up home" to visit my father’s family in rural Whitefield, Maine. This happened in the 1940s. By then, ...

People interbred domesticated vines with wild fruit. This is an Inside Science story. Many of the varieties of grapes used in today's wines are hundreds of years old. Genetic analysis shows that ...

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This article originally appeared on Undark. In 1981, Adam Tolmach planted a five-acre vineyard on land he had inherited from his grandfather in the wine-growing region of Ventura County, California, a ...