Dom talks with Associate Professor Christopher Winefield, from the Department of Wine, Food & Molecular Biosciences at Lincoln University, about its world-first genome study which could help NZ’s billion-dollar wine export industry grow more disease-resistant grapevines and reduce fungicide use in the sector, how it works and the formation of a new commercial venture designed to democratise genomic testing for farms across New Zealand.

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