Washington State University postdoctoral fellow Pradeep Shrestha collects sap from a pressurized grape peduncle. Though Washington is the number-two wine-producing state in the nation, Washington State University scientists struggle to secure national research dollars. Washington has obtained federal funding for its plant improvement program and Foundation Block, but has not done as well securing –funding for research projects. Most of the research money from the Viticulture Consortium, a federal research grant program administered through the University of California and Cornell University, and from the American Vineyard Foundation, funded by industry contributions, seems to go to California and New York. Although […]