Exploring what causes some grapes to crack and change color during the ripening process
Student Name: Maddy Jennewein. UCD Department: Pomology. UCD Mentor: Ken Shackel.
On this project, we are working on a project to explore how different levels sugar and hormones influence to percentage of grapes that crack and change color during ripening. This project involves testing many grapes in several mixtures of sugar and abscissic acid (a plant hormone) and calculating the percentage of grapes lost to cracking. At the end of the project, grape samples from the beginning will be compared to the grapes form the end to understand what genes the different sugar-hormone mixtures are activating.
