Introduction

My graduate student, john bowers, he's doing his phd. On grape genetics. He and i both become really aware of this dana profiling work that's ah going on with humans - red and craternitis, things like that. We began to wonder whether we might be able to do this with grapes. There are some identity issues in grapes where it would be good to have an objective way to identify a variety. All the new world wine producing countries got their main varieties from europe,. They're all vitus veniferaor essentially, oh, they're, they're all vitu venifera.