Sometimes the best Austin Answered queries come from above. By that I mean, from my editors. Features editor Deborah Sengupta Stith, an astute gardener, put forth a perfect question for this column in ...

Muscadines are also known for being hearty grapes, with a tough skin that protects them from many fungal diseases. Bunch grapes are highly susceptible to damage from plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs), ...

There's problem, though. Many people have a hard time getting past the thick skin and bitter seeds of the muscadine. Not totally unexpected for a fruit that takes its name from the smell of a male ...

Native to the Southeastern United States, muscadine grapes are a superfruit. With high levels of resveratrol, phenols and antioxidants, they are known to help fight cardiovascular disease and ...

WADMALAW ISLAND — Ruth Penderghast wears a vibrant red wig and holds hands with her friend Nancy Reading as they step into a wooden barrel filled with cool muscadine grapes. They have three minutes to ...

Muscadines are an indigenous wild grape native to the Southeast. Typically, the gold green ones are referred to as scuppernongs, and the dark purple are known as muscadines. Scuppernongs are actually ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — With support from a $7 million grant that was received from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a team comprised of 32 people from ...

Islam El-Sharkawy, PhD is an associate professor at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and is currently researching how grapes can be used to prevent and treat disease. Protiva Das, PhD , ...

Grapes are one of the oldest and most extensively cultivated food crops in the world. The earliest archaeological evidence of the domesticated grape comes from an area between the Black Sea and Iran.