South Australian researchers have updated a mobile phone app to help grape growers detect grapevine trunk diseases that are becoming more common across Australia’s wine production regions.
The University of Adelaide worked with Wine Australia and the South Australian Research and Development Institute to update a software programme used by vignerons to map the health of their vineyards.
The researchers revised the Grape Assess app, which was launched in June, to include research and data on trunk diseases such as eutypa dieback and botryosphaeria.
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