Two New Table Grape Varieties Developed in Plant Breeding Colloaboration A plant breeding collaboration between Cornell AgriTech, the agricultural experiment arm of Cornell University, and Sun World International, a fruit genetics and licensing company, has developed two new grape varieties which “offer new flavors for consumers and better growing characteristics for farmers.” A new green seedless variety, Sugarfiftytwo, is an ultra-early ripening variety with a muscat flavor, and a new red variety, Sugrasixty, that ripens midseason with large berries and tropical aromas, were the first varieties to be released by joint breeding effort. The new varieties took advantage of Cornell’s unique grape germplasm collection, which dates to 1888 and contains varieties adapted to cooler
