Virus-resistant grapevines
Date: 5.7.2009
**Viruses** can cost winegrowers an entire harvest. If they infest the grapevines, even pesticides are often no use. What’s more, these chemicals are harmful to the environment. Researchers are growing **plants** that produce **antibodies** against the viruses and are thus **immune**.
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME in Aachen are making certain plants **resistant** to the GFLV (Grapevine fanleaf virus) by **genetic engineering**.
"Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft":[ http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2009/july/virus-resistant-grapevines.jsp]
