How can growers withstand climate change? We go inside the mind of a scientist who has spent decades combining nature with his lab skills to create new agricultural products. Bruce Reisch is a master grape breeder whose newest creation is a wine grape called Aravelle. In the Finger Lakes, riesling is the most successful grape variety. Reisch wanted to give the industry something with riesling's quality, but more durability during our climate changed-winters. His perspective on climate change is one that extends beyond vineyards to everyone who tries to grow anything on an annual basis.
Reisch joins us to share his secrets. Our guest:
- Bruce Reisch, professor of grapevine breeding and genetics at Cornell AgriTech, who has appointments in both the Section of Horticulture and the Section of Plant Breeding within the School of Integrative Plant Science, a unit of the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences