Nancy Sweet Foundation Plant Services, UC Davis SB Sauvignon blanc Experience May 4-5, 2018 Kelseyville, Lake County, California
Produce, test, maintain and distribute elite disease-tested plant propagation material. Provide plant importation and quarantine services, virus testing and virus elimination. Coordinate release of UCpatented varieties. Link researchers, nurseries, and producers.
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SB
Release time 2-6 years
Conventional High-throughput sequencing (HTS) Biological Indexing Herbaceous indexing Woody indexing Serological ELISA Nucleic acid-based PCR qpcr
Grapevine Fanleaf Virus Grapevine Leafroll associated Viruses Microshoot tip tissue culture (or meristem shoot tip culture) Eliminates viruses and other pathogens Rugose wood Viruses
Excise microshoot tip in sterile hood Collect apical shoot tips Microshoot tip meristem dome and 1-2 pairs of leaf primordia < 0.5 mm
CLASSIC FPS FIELD BLOCK C - 3 10 44 36 13 12 1 N A B 1 9 A GOHEEN BLOCK 1 14 A 1 25 1 19 1 23 1 23 1 15 D F H B C NYLAND BLOCK E G I 3,2,1 1 20 A 1 10 D 1 20 1 10 1 14 1 16 AA B E G H BKN BLOCK K L C F COLOR KEY ROSE SCION ROSE ROOTSTOCK GRAPE ROOTSTOCK 1 30 1 16 1 7 A B C BKS BLOCK VINEYARD SCION TREES ROOTSOCK SEED TRESS PISTACHIO NOTE: THIS MAP DEPICTS BLOCK, PLANT, TREE AND VINE PLACEMENT, AND ROW DIRECTION. INDIVIDUAL PLANTS ARE NUMBERED ASCENDING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH
Established 2010, Davis, California
COLOR KEY GRAPE ROOTSTOCK (RRV) VINEYARD (RRV) SCION TREES (RRO) N RUSSELL RANCH MAP PISTACHIO (RRP) F C X 1 42 A 1 40 B 1 8 E 1 8 19 24 1 40 1 8 D G 1 16 1 3
Developed at UC Davis 1956-2018 752 varieties, more than 2,000 selections Wine, table, juice and raisin grapes, rootstock Public and proprietary Disease tested and professionally identified See FPS Grape Catalogue: fps.ucdavis.edu/grapes/available Varieties
20 70 million grapevine plants sold/ year trace back to FPS SB
Second half of 19th century J.B. Portal, Santa Clara Valley in 1870 s Napa (H.W. Crabb, Gustave Niebaum) Sonoma (J.H. Drummond) Standard generic wine labels: Sauterne Haute Sauterne
Hilgard planted at UC Expt Stations in 1890 Bioletti (1907): support grape for Sémillon Amerine and Winkler (1944): high quality white wine by itself or in blends
Château d Yquem Gironde region Bordeaux, France Charles Wetmore, State Board of Viticultural Commissioners Travelled to France to retrieve cuttings Brought SB to Livermore Valley ~ 1884 First appeared in FPS collection in 1965
Wetmore shared Yquem cuttings with Louis Mel in Livermore Valley El Mocho vineyard Wente purchased El Mocho vineyard sometime before 1925 Harold Olmo collected FPS 01 cuttings from Wente s El Mocho vineyard in 1958
UCD 1 cuttings sent FPS to Auckland, NZ, in 1968 and 1969 Reportedly formed the basis of the NZ Sauvignon blanc industry Photo courtesy of Mike Trought, Director of Plant And Food Research, Marlborough Wine Research Center, New Zealand, at UC Davis in 2010
the musqué clone 1962, viticulture station at Pont-de-la-Maye, Gironde region, France Arrived with label Savagnin musqué Galet identified as SB in Monterey County trials in 1980s DNA at UCD 1998
Winegrowers Project, 1987-89 California winegrower demand for new clonal material Most through OSU, some direct 4 SB clones imported, FPS direct, from INRA, Chambre d Agriculture de la Gironde, Aquitaine, 1989 reported to be French clone. FPS 14: reported to be French clone 316 FPS 18: clone 317 FPS 20: clone 242 FPS 25: clone 378
Authorized French clones Sauvignon blanc ENTAV-INRA 241, 376, 389, 530, 905, 906 Pepiniere Guillaume, Charcenne, clone G1 Sauvignon blanc 32
UCD Oakville field station, 1990 Recommended by Phil Freese Very old, gnarled, head trained vine
SB Sauvignon blanc 23 Kendall-Jackson, 1999 Howell Mountain Vineyard KJ winemakers: best fruit in the program Sauvignon blanc 26 Well-respected Napa vineyard planted 1945 Suspected source is other than SB 01 due to age of vineyard Wines with intense varietal character
Map of UC s Foothill Experiment Station at Jackson, Amador County, 1888-1889 Former UC Foothill Station, Jackson Cuttings from one of 73 vines at Central Expt Station on UCB campus, 1874-75 Planted at Foothill Station, 1890. Station abandoned 1903 Vineyard re-discovered by Austin Goheen in early 1960 s
Larry Hyde Vineyards in Carneros, 2002 Originally from vines at Arroyo Seco, Monterey County Hyde: musqué type Sauvignon blanc
Heritage clone from Bedrock Wines, Sonoma County From block planted in 1896, Nervo Ranch, Alexander Appellation, Geyserville, CA Project to preserve heritage clones in California
Istituto Sperimentale per la Viticoltura (ISV), Conegliano 1988-89 Winegrowers Project CPF = Friuli SB FPS 06: ISV-CPF-5 SB FPS 07: ISV-CPF-2 SB FPS 24: ISV-CPF-3 SB FPS 17: ISV Conegliano 1
Public selection Sauvignon blanc FPS 28 1994 Clone R3 pungent and recognizable Proprietary selection VCR clone Sauvignon 389 2014 Vivai Cooperativi Rauscedo
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