In the high-end wine world, hybrid grapes have long had a bad rap, but there are signs of growing acceptance for a new generation of disease-resistant hybrids.In contrast to pretty much every other crop out there, wine growers tend to eschew new varieties in favor of traditional cultivars bred in Europe centuries ago, despite the fact that they are highly susceptible to fungal diseases from the New World, namely powdery mildew and downy mildew.
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