Publications

The following citations (nested by year) are publications from VitisGen3 principal investigators, either arising directly from VG3 funding, or from closely related work. 

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2022

Agüero C. B., Riaz S., Tenscher A. C., Bistué C., & Walker M. A. (2022). Molecular and functional characterization of two RGA type genes in the PdR1b locus for Pierce’s disease resistance in Vitis arizonica/candicans. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 151(3), 497–510. doi: 10.1007/s11240-022-02366-6

Alahakoon D, Fennell A, Helget Z, Bates T, Karn A, Manns D, Mansfield AK, Reisch BI, Sacks G, Sun Q, Zou C, Cadle-Davidson L, Londo JP. (2022) Berry Anthocyanin, Acid, and Volatile Trait Analyses in a Grapevine-Interspecific F2 Population Using an Integrated GBS and rhAmpSeq Genetic Map. Plants (Basel). 11(5):696. doi: 10.3390/plants11050696. PMID: 35270166; PMCID: PMC8912348.

Bustamante MI, Elfar K, Smith R, Bettiga L, Tian T, Torres-Londoño GA, Eskalen A. (2022) First Report of Fusarium annulatum Associated with Young Vine Decline in California. Plant Dis. doi: 10.1094/PDIS-12-21-2790-PDN. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35306844.

Liu, E., Gold, K. M., Combs, D., Cadle-Davidson, L., & Jiang, Y. (2022). Deep semantic segmentation for the quantification of grape foliar diseases in the vineyard. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, 978761. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.978761

Olson J., Zou C., Karn A., Reisch B., Cadle-Davidson, L. Sun Q., & Clark M. (2022). Genetic Analyses for Leaf Variegation in Hybrid Grape Populations (Vitis spp.) Reveals Two Loci, Lvar1 and Lvar2. HortScience, 57(11), 1416–1423. doi: 10.21273/HORTSCI16763-22

Uddin A., Gallardo R. K., Rickard B., Alston J., & Sambucci O. (2022). Consumer acceptance of new plant-breeding technologies: An application to the use of gene editing in fresh table grapes. PLOS ONE, 17(12), e0270792. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270792

2023

Alahakoon D., Fennell A. (2023). Genetic analysis of grapevine root system architecture and loci associated gene networks. Frontiers in Plant Science 13. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1083374

Castro C., Massonnet M., Her N, DiSalvo B, Jablonska B, Jeske DR, Cantu D, Roper MC. (2023) Priming grapevine with lipopolysaccharide confers systemic resistance to Pierce's disease and identifies a peroxidase linked to defense priming. New Phytol. doi: 10.1111/nph.18945. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37149885.

Cochetel N., Minio A., Guarracino A., Garcia J. F., Figueroa-Balderas R., Massonnet M., Kasuga T., Londo J. P., Garrison E., Gaut B. S., & Cantu D. (2023). A super-pangenome of the North American wild grape species. Genome Biology, 24(1), 290. doi: 10.1186/s13059-023-03133-2

Gambhir N., Paul A., Qiu T., Combs D., Hosseinzadeh S., Underhill A., Cadle-Davidson L., Jiang Y., & Gold K. M. (2023). Non-destructive monitoring of foliar fungicide efficacy with hyperspectral sensing in grapevine. Phytopathology, 10.1094/PHYTO-02-23-0061-R. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-02-23-0061-R

Galvan FER, Pavlick R, Trolley G, Aggarwal S, Sousa D, Starr C, Forrestel E, Bolton S, Alsina MDM, Dokoozlian N, Gold KM. (2023). Scalable Early Detection of Grapevine Viral Infection with Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy. Phytopathology. 113(8):1439-1446. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-01-23-0030-R. Epub 2023 Sep 20. PMID: 37097472.

Liu E., Monica J., Gold K., Cadle-Davidson L., Combs D., & Jiang Y. (2023). Vision-based Vineyard Navigation Solution with Automatic Annotation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.14347.

Liu E., Romero Galvan F. E., Combs D., Kanaley K., Pavlick R., Gold K. M., & Jiang Y. (2023). Autonomous Detection and Severity Estimation of Grapevine Leafroll Disease in the Vineyard. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. 2023 ASABE Annual International Meeting. Retrieved July 3, 2023, from doi: 10.13031/aim.202300630

Lu Lizhen, Yingzhen Yang, Gan-Yuan Zhong, Zhenchang Liang, and Lailiang Cheng. (2023). "Phytochemical Composition and Content of Red-Fleshed Grape Accessions" Horticulturae 9, no. 5: 579. doi: 10.3390/horticulturae9050579

Nigar Q., Cadle-Davidson L., Gadoury D. M., & Hassan M. ul. (2023). First Report of Colletotrichum fioriniae Causing Grapevine Anthracnose in New York.  Plant Disease, 107(1), 223. doi: 10.1094/PDIS-03-22-0604-PDN

Romero Galvan F, Pavlick R, Trolley GR, Aggarwal S, Sousa D, Starr C, Forrestel EJ, Bolton S, Alsina MDM, Dokoozlian N, Gold KM. (2023). Scalable early detection of grapevine virus infection with airborne imaging spectroscopy. Phytopathology. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-01-23-0030-R. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37097472.

Sapkota S., Zou C., Ledbetter C., Underhill A., Sun Q., Gadoury D., Cadle-Davidson L. (2023). Discovery and genome-guided mapping of REN12 from Vitis amurensis, conferring strong, rapid resistance to grapevine powdery mildew, Horticulture Research, uhad052, doi: 10.1093/hr/uhad052

Svyantek A, Wang Z, Hatterman-Valenti H. (2023). Impact of Steam Extraction and Maceration Duration on Wines from Frozen ‘Frontenac’ Must. Fermentation. 9(4):317. doi: 10.3390/fermentation9040317

Svyantek A., Wang Z., Stenger J., Theisen N., Brooke M., Auwarter C., & Hatterman Valenti H. (2023). An Exploratory Analysis of Yield, Fruit Composition, and Single Vine Wines of Interspecific Cold-hardy White Grapevine Breeding Lines. Archives of Agriculture Research and Technology (AART), 4(2), 1–11. doi: 10.54026/AART/1050

2024

Cantu D., Massonnet M., & Cochetel N. (2024). The wild side of grape genomics. Trends in Genetics, S016895252400101X. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2024.04.014

Chitwood D. H., Torres-Lomas E., Hadi E. S., Peterson W. L. G., Fischer M. F., Rogers S. E., He C., Acierno M. G. F., Azumaya S., Benjamin S. W., Chalise D. P., Chess,E. E., Engelsma A. J., Fu Q., Jaikham J., Knight B. M., Kodjak N. S., Lengyel A., Muñoz B. L., … Diaz-Garcia L. (2024). A high resolution model of the grapevine leaf morphospace predicts synthetic leaves. doi: 10.1101/2024.03.08.584086

de Sousa Moreira L., Clark M. D., Tabb A., Karn A., Londo J. P., Zou C., Sun Q., van Zyl S., Prins B., DeLong J. D., Burhans A., Yang H., & Naegele R. P. (2024). Identification of Novel Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Table Grape Fruit Quality Characteristics in a Segregating Population and Transferability of Existing Quality Markers. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci., 149(1), 50-60. Retrieved Jan 29, 2024, from doi: 10.21273/JASHS05334-23

El-Abbasy UK, Abdel-Hameed MA, Hatterman-Valenti HM, El-Shereif AR, Abd El-Khalek AF. Effectiveness of Oregano and Thyme Essential Oils as Alternatives for Sulfur Dioxide in Controlling Decay and Gray Mold and Maintaining Quality of ‘Flame Seedless’ Table Grape (Vitis vinifera L.) during Cold Storage. Agronomy. 2023; 13(12):3075. doi: 10.3390/agronomy13123075

Kaya O., Yilmaz T., Ates F., Kustutan F., Hatterman-Valenti H. et al. (2024). Improving organic grape production: the effects of soil management and organic fertilizers on biogenic amine levels in Vitis vinifera cv., 'Royal' grapes. Chem. Biol. Technol. Agric. 11, 38. doi: 10.1186/s40538-024-00564-2

Kaya O., Delavar H., Shikanai A., Auwarter C., & Hatterman-Valenti H. (2024). Assessing the Influence of Autumnal Temperature Fluctuations on Cold Hardiness in Different Grapevine Cultivars: Variations Across Vine Age and Bud Positions. Front. Plant Sci., 15.doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1379328

Lin Y., Underhill A., Cadle-Davison L., Jimenez A., Riaz S., & Jiang Y. (2024). Effective integration of vision foundational models for semantic segmentation to quantify grape foliage powdery mildew infection. 2024 Anaheim, California July 28-31, 2024. 2024 Anaheim, California July 28-31, 2024. doi: 10.13031/aim.202401108

Meza L., Deyett E., Vallance J., Gendre L., Garcia J. F., Cantu D., Rey P., Lecomte P., & Rolshausen P. E. (2024). Grapevine pruning strategy affects trunk disease symptoms, wood pathobiome and mycobiome. Phytopathologia Mediterranea, 63(1), 91–102. doi: 10.36253/phyto-14778

Paineau M., Zaccheo M., Massonnet M., & Cantu D. (2024). Advances in grape and pathogen genomics toward durable grapevine disease resistance. Journal of Experimental Botany, erae450. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erae450

Paineau M., Minio A., Mestre P., Fabre F., Mazet I. D., Couture C., Legeai F., Dumartinet T., Cantu D., & Delmotte F. (2024). Multiple deletions of candidate effector genes lead to the breakdown of partial grapevine resistance to downy mildew. New Phytologist, nph.19861. doi: 0.1111/nph.19861

Sharma P., Thilakarathna I., & Fennell A. (2024). Hyperspectral imaging and artificial intelligence enhance remote phenotyping of grapevine rootstock influence on whole vine photosynthesis. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1409821

Sinclair G., Galarneau E. R., Hnizdor J. F., McElrone A. J., Walker M. A., & Bartlett M. K. (2024). Grape cultivars adapted to hotter, drier growing regions exhibit greater photosynthesis under hot conditions despite less drought-resistant leaves. Annals of Botany. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcae032

Torres-Lomas E., Lado-Jimena J., Garcia-Zamora G., & Diaz-Garcia L. (2024). Segment Anything for comprehensive analysis of grapevine cluster architecture and berry properties. arXiv.Org. doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.12935

Wong A. T., Gadoury D. M., & Mahaffee W. F. (2024). Evaluation of germicidal UV-C light for suppression of grape powdery mildew and Botrytis bunch rot in Western Oregon. Plant Disease, PDIS-02-24-0279-RE. doi: 10.1094/PDIS-02-24-0279-RE

Yang Y., Wheatley M., Meakem V., Galarneau E., Gutierrez B., & Zhong G. (2024). Editing VvDXS1 for the creation of muscat flavour in Vitis vinifera cv. Scarlet Royal. Plant Biotechnology Journal, pbi.14290. doi: 10.1111/pbi.14290

Yu J., Jakubowski R., Bates T., Jiang Y., & Chen C. (2024). Integrating Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning for Non-Destructive Damage Detection of Grapes. 2024 Anaheim, California July 28-31, 2024. 2024 Anaheim, California July 28-31, 2024. doi: 10.13031/aim.202400989

2025

Bonarota M.-S., Garcia J.F., Massonnet M., Zaccheo M, Figueroa-Balderas R., Cochetel N., Cantu D. (2025). Dual single-nucleus gene expression atlas of grapevine and Erysiphe necator during early powdery mildew infection. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 2025.08.11.669584; doi: 10.1101/2025.08.11.669584
 

Brewer A., Underhill A., Sapkota S., Hwang C.-F., Riaz S., Oravec M., & Cadle-Davidson, L. (2025). Realistic Scenarios of Phenotypic Variation and Errors in High-Throughput Phenotyping Experiments Minimally Impact the Results of QTL Mapping Analysis (world) [Research-article]. PHYTO. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-01-25-0007-FI

Duwadi A., Sapkota S., Zou C., Chen D. L., Cadle-Davidson L., & Hwang, C.-F. (2025). A novel susceptibility locus to Erysiphe necator (SEN2) identified by genetic mapping of automated microscopy computer vision data in grapevines (world) [Research-article]. Https://Doi.Org/10.1094/PDIS-10-24-2133-RE. doi: 10.1094/PDIS-10-24-2133-RE

Galarneau E. R., Wallis C. M., & Baumgartner K. (2025). Biochemical characterization of wood decay and metabolization of phenolic compounds by causal fungi of grapevine trunk diseases. PLOS ONE, 20(4), e0315412. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0315412

Hosseinzadeh S., Martinez D., Weber R. H., Underhill A., Bitsadze N., Moreno J., Cadle-Davidson L., Jiang Y., & Gold Kaitlin M. (2025). Preprint Enhancing plant pathology discovery and application development through automated, high-throughput hyperspectral imaging. agriRxiv Preprintdoi: 10.31220/agriRxiv.2025.00359

Jin D., Gunner N., Janke N. C., Baruah S., Gold K. M., & Jiang Y. (2025). Aleks: AI powered Multi Agent System for Autonomous Scientific Discovery via Data-Driven Approaches in Plant Science (No. arXiv:2508.19383). arXiv. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2508.19383

Liu E., Gold K. M., Cadle-Davidson L., Kanaley K., Combs D., & Jiang Y. (2025). PhytoPatholoBot: Autonomous Ground Robot for Near-Real-Time Disease Scouting in the Vineyard. Journal of Field Roboticsdoi: 10.1002/rob.70049

Massonnet M., Figueroa-Balderas R., Cochetel N., Riaz S., Pap D., Walker M.A., Cantu D. (2025). Dissection of the Ren6 and Ren7 powdery mildew resistance loci in Vitis piasezkii DVIT2027 using phased parental–progeny genomes and intraspecific locus graph reconstruction. bioRxiv Preprint 2025.05.14.653892; doi: 10.1101/2025.05.14.653892
 
Massonnet M., Cochetel N., Ricciardi V., Minio A., Figueroa-Balderas R., Londo J.P., Cantu D. (2025) Evolutionary conservation of the grape sex-determining region in angiosperms and emergence of dioecy in Vitaceae. Nat Commun 16, 6047. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-61387-9
 

Paudel, S., Regmi, S., Bhattarai, S., Fennell, A.  Janaswamy, S. (2025). Valorization of grapevine agricultural waste into transparent and high-strength biodegradable films for sustainable packaging. Sustainable Food Technol. 3, 1218-1231, doi: 10.1039/D5FB00211G

Sapkota S., Martinez D., Underhill A., Chen, L.-L., Gadoury, D., Cadle-Davidson, L., & Hwang, C.-F. (2025, April 2). A Device for Computer Vision Analysis of Fungal Features Outperforms Quantitative Manual Microscopy by Experts in Discerning a Host Resistance Locus (world) [Research-article]. PHYTO. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-01-25-0033-R

Sharma, P., Alahakoon, D., Londo, J. P., & Fennell, A. Y. (2025). Genetic Regulation of Leaf Morphology in Own-rooted and Grafted Vines of an F1 Rootstock Population. Frontiers in Plant Science, 16, 1625453. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1625453
 

Sharma N., Heger L., Combs D.B., Smith W. M., Holland L., Brannen P., Gold K.M., & Miles, T. (2025). Prevalence of Mutations Associated with QoI, QiI, QioSI and CAA Fungicide Resistance Within Plasmopara viticola in North America and a Tool to Detect CAA Resistant Isolates (world) [Research-article]. PHYTO. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-08-24-0257-R