Project Number
WW 17-02
Project title
Identification of wine grape cultivars by means of chemotaxonomy
Project leader
Steenkamp, J
Project description
Since morphological charcacteristics of plants are affected by soil, climate and cultivation practices, it is possible that some cultivars and/or clones, which are imported for their unique characteristics, may be identical. Application of conventional ampelographic techniques does not always allow confident differentiation and so it was decided to develop a DNA-fingerprinting technique capable of distinguishing between clones and cultivars.
Presentation(s)
Steenkamp, J, Wiid, I, Lourend, A and Epplen, J T. 1996. Informitivity of simple repeat oligonucleotides for grapevine DNA. 4th International Symposium on Cool Climate Viticulture and Enology.
Steenkamp, J and Lamboy, W F. 1997. The utility of simple sequence repeats for fingerprinting South African winegrapes. National Congress of the South African Society for Enology and Viticulture, 27-28 November, Somerset West, South Africa.
Fouche, M G and Steenkamp, J. 1998. DNA Typing of grapevine cultivars using simple sequence repeat. XVI SA Genetic Society, 28 June – 1 July, Bloemfontein, South Africa.