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Vineyard Practice
Site Selection and Climate
Chemical Constituents of Grapes and Wine
Oenology
Sensory Perception
Wine Consumers and Wine Tourism

Vineyard Practice

Bird damage assessment methodology
Valerie Saxton

Measuring grape damage as an indicator of bird pressure on grapes
Valerie Saxton

Falcons for grapes
Valerie Saxton

Improving ecosystems services in vineyards
Steve Wratten, Marco Jacometti, Te Ari Prendergast, Shona Sam, Samantha Scarratt, Sofia Orre and Jean Thompson

Spatial analysis of biocontrol in vineyards
Mattias Jonsson, Steve Wratten, Roddy Hale, Hannah Buckley, Brad Case (CoRE), Raphael Didham (University of Canterbury), Matthew Thomas (CSIRO, Canberra) and Teja Tschamtke (Gottingen University, Germany)

Interactions between a disease and a pest: how do thrips (Thrips obscuratus) influence the infection and contamination of grape vine by Botrytis cinerea?
Marlene Jaspers, Steve Wratten and Katrin Schmidt

Cylindrocarpon black foot disease - pathogen identification, disease development and control
Marlene Jaspers , Eirian Jones and Hayley Ridgway with students Carolyn Bleach, Dalin Dore and Chantal Probst

Botryosphaeria die-back disease - pathogen identification, epidemiology and control
Marlene Jaspers, Eirian Jones and Hayley Ridgway with students Nicholas Amponsah, Seelan Baskarathevan and one other, TBA.

Understorey management for sustainable bio-protection in vineyards: diseases
Marco Jacometti, Steve Wratten, Marlene Jaspers (Lincoln University), Monika Walter (HortResearch, Lincoln) and Seresin Estate Vineyard, Marlborough

Site Selection and Climate

Nitrogen supply in wine yeasts from soils via grapes in New Zealand vineyards
Roland Harrison and Carol Smith

Chemical Constituents of Grapes and Wine

Manipulation of flavour compounds in Pinot noir
Glen Creasy, Roland Harrison and Rob Sherlock

The effect of UV-B on grapes and 'untypical' aging in wine
Melissa Talbot, Rainer Hofmann , Brian Jordan and Mike Trought (Marlborough Wine Research Centre)

Evaluation of crushed glass and mussel shells as reflective mulches in vineyards
Glen Creasy

Effects of potassium on grapevine growth and fruit composition
Lyndon Greening and Peter Jarvis

The influence of fruit exposure on flavour and aroma development in Sauvignon blanc grapes and the composition of wine
Rebecca Ford, Roland Harrison, Mike Trought (Marlborough Wine Research Centre) and Glen Creasy

Investigation of the interaction between soil characteristics and crop load/leaf area on flavour and aroma development in Sauvignon blanc grapes
Robyn Dixon, Mike Trought (Marlborough Wine Research Centre) and Glen Creasy

Isolation and characterisation of genes involved in aromatic volatile formation in Sauvignon blanc
Ganeshan Vellasamy, Brian Jordan and Chris Winefield

Biochemical pathways leading to petanone/hexanone precursors of glutathionated aroma compounds
Andriy Podolyan, Chris Winefield and Brian Jordan

The influence of soil type and fruit exposure on flavour and aroma development in Sauvignon blanc grapes and the composition of wine
Melissa Sutherland, Glen Creasy and Mike Trought (Marlborough Wine Research Centre)

The influence of reflective mulch on Pinot noir grape and wine quality (2007 vintage)
Gerardo Leal and Glen Creasy

Rootstock and canopy density effects on grape berry composition
Craig Thomson, Glen Creasy, Peter Jarvis and Belinda Gould

Oenology

Anthocyanin modification by yeast
Nicholas Entwistle, Jo Abbott and Chris Winefield

Characterising hazes in wines
Lyndon Greening, Roland Harrison, Jim Morton and Chris Dawson

Anthocyanin-tannin interactions in wine
David Bloomfield, Glen Creasy and David Heatherbell

Sensory Perception

Making sense of wine: understanding perception of aroma and flavour
Wendy Parr

Development of methodologies and protocols for sensory evaluation of research wines
Wendy Parr

Wine Consumers and Wine Tourism

What makes a wine tourism destination successful?
Joanna Fountain and Rupert Tipples

Wine tourists’ expectations and experiences at the winery cellar door
Joanna Fountain

Wine tourism and generation Y
Joanna Fountain

Seasonality in wine tourism: A supply-side analysis of cool-climate boutique wineries
Daisy Dawson and Joanna Fountain

The effect of country of origin and usage situation on consumer behaviour: An exploratory study of the Australian and New Zealand wine markets
Sharon Forbes and David Cohen