Researchers will use nearly $1.8 million in grant money to develop new detection, extension, and research tools for managing wood-canker diseases of grapes and nut crops. Wood-canker diseases are a leading cause of vineyard and orchard removal in many parts of the country. The research project was one of 14 projects funded in October by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Research Initiative authorized under the now expired 2008 Farm Bill. A total of $46 million was approved for the SCRI projects. This is the first multicrop project to tackle trunk ­diseases. Several trunk diseases affect all three of […]