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Listen to Cecil Camilleri talk about ‘Building sustainability into company culture’ at the 2009 Wine2030 Blue Sky Symposium, held at the national wine centre in Adelaide, South Australia on Tuesday 10 November, 2009.

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Listen to Vladimir Jiranek talk about the ‘Challenges of taking research from bench to market’ at the 2009 Wine2030 Blue Sky Symposium, held at the national wine centre in Adelaide, South Australia on Tuesday 10 November, 2009.

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Listen to Barry Burgan talk about ‘Building new financial models’ at the 2009 Wine2030 Blue Sky Symposium, held at the national wine centre in Adelaide, South Australia on Tuesday 10 November, 2009.

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Listen to Alfio Grasso talk about ‘Mobile devices and retail decision makers’ at the 2009 Wine2030 Blue Sky Symposium, held at the national wine centre in Adelaide, South Australia on Tuesday 10 November, 2009.

Art & Heritage Collections of the University of Adelaide invite you to a Cultural Conversation:

Food and Wine
with Andrew Jefford, wine writer
and
Catherine Kerry, restaurateur

1 – 2pm Wednesday 4 November 2009
Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library
The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus
Free — all welcome

For more information and to register please call
Sally Foster on 8303 3086 or email
art.heritage@adelaide.edu.au

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The Wine2030 Research Network is hosting an exciting Symposium on 10 November at the National Wine Centre. For further information give me a call on (08) 8303 5672 or register online at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/wine2030

Listen to this short audio promotion for this year’s Wine2030 Conference to be held at the national wine centre of Australia, Adelaide on Tuesday 10th November 2009. Background information to this year’s event, featuring brief discussion on outcomes from last year’s collaboration with the Centre of Expertise in Photonics.

Blue Sky 2009 Symposium – Research to transform the wine Industry
Tuesday 10th November, 8.45am-4.30pm
Hickinbotham Hall, National Wine Centre go to our Conferences link for Symposium flyer (pdf 188kB) and online registration.

The Blue Sky 2009 Symposium and Andrew Jefford Public Lecture are subsidised in their entirety by the Wine 2030 Research Network.

Cell death research wins best paper award.

Congratulations to Joanne Tilbrook and Stephen Tyerman for their contributions to a paper on Cell death in grape berries that has been awarded Functional Plant Biology’s (FPB) ’2008 Best Paper 2008 for early-career scientists’.  According to Professor Tyerman of the University of Adelaide, this award winning research shows a previously unidentified stage in grape berry development that will impact on quality and accounts for water loss from berries.

Image of Berry Cell

Illustration: Varietal differences in cell death in the pericarp of grape berries is linked to the water relations of the berry. The intense green fluorescence is indicative of vital cells. Left image is LS section of a Sultana (Thompson Seedless) berry showing vital cells across the pericarp. The right image is a Chardonnay berry at a similar age and sugar content showing loss of cell vitality (scale = 10 mm). Sections and photography kindly prepared by Wendy Sullivan.

Best Paper Award for FPB 2008 for early-career scientists
Functional Plant Biology and the Australian Society of Plant Scientists announce the award of the best paper for 2008 from an early-career scientist to Joanne Tilbrook. Her paper results from her PhD thesis at the University of Adelaide. “Cell death in grape berries: varietal differences linked to xylem pressure and berry weight loss” by Joanne Tilbrook and Stephen D. Tyerman. Functional Plant Biology 25, 173-184 (2008).

The authors have discovered that cell death occurs in the mesocarp of berries of two wine grape varieties late in development, but before normal harvest date. The onset of cell death corresponds to the beginning of weight loss in the variety that has a higher hydraulic conductance via the pedicel xylem. In contrast, a table grape variety that does not show cell death generates tension in the pedicel xylem. These observations indicate that there are variety dependent strategies of water relations and ripening of grape berries that may be linked to the vitality status of the large mesocarp cells.

Listen to a podcast of a presentation by Paul van der Lee, Winemakers’ Federation of Australia at the Australian Marketing Institute Seminar Wednesday 27 May, 2009, National Wine Centre, Adelaide.

Title:    From “South East Australia” to “McLaren Vale/Margaret River/Hunter/Yarra Valley” – can regional branding reposition the Australian wine category for sustainable growth in export markets?

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