LIBRARY
We support the development of the industry by promoting the benefits of new grape varieties, mechanisation and trellis drying.
Welcome to the Dried Fruits Australia digital library.
The library gives DFA members access to dried grape industry knowledge and information, accumulated over several decades.
Here you will find hundreds of reports, research papers, best practice information sheets, books, and past issues of the Vine magazine and its predecessor Dried Fruits News.
Use the search bar or category buttons below to find the information you need.
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The Genetic Basis for Salt Exclusion in Grapevines
In this article: This article reports data from vineyard surveys and controlled glasshouse trials [...]
Preliminary Evaluation of Alternative Drying Grape Varieties
In this article: A number of seedless grape varieties have been introduced into Australia [...]
Breeding Grapevines for Tropical Environments
In this article: Grapevines are increasingly grown in the latitudes between the Tropics of [...]
Grape Drying Principles in Relation to Trellis Drying
In this article: Australia’s main dried fruit markets require high quality, light coloured sultanas. [...]
Minimal Pruning – Its Role in Canopy Management and its Adoption in Australian Viticulture
In this article: Trials conducted in warm, irrigated Australian vineyards with Sultana and a [...]
Update on Experimental Results with Merbein Seedless
In this article: (In: Dried Fruit News) Update on Experimental Results with Merbein Seedless [...]
The Irymple trellis system – a mechanised system of dried Sultana production
In this article: Internal report series no. 70, May 1985. The progress of research [...]
Rootstock for Sultana
In this article: A vineyard survey of plant-parasitic nematodes conducted by CSIRO Merbein in [...]
Space and Light Requirements of Grafted Vines
In this article: This paper briefly discusses the space and light requirements and the [...]
Growth and Mineral Composition of the Sultana Grapevine as influenced by Salinity and Rootstock
In this article: Sultana grapevine, either on own root system or else grafted to [...]
Variation on chloride accumulation by hybrid vines from crosses involving the cultivars ramsey, Villard blanc and sultana
In this article: The possibility of breeding grapevines tolerant of salinity in the rootzone [...]
Chloride Uptake and Distribution by Grapevines with established and developing Root Systems in relation to Variations in Rootzone Salinity
In this article: The purpose of this work was to investigate effects of zonal [...]
Successful Propagation of Vitis berlandieri and Vitis cinerea from Hardwood Cuttings
In this article: A technique using water culture has been developed which enables the [...]
Yield Differences between Sultana Clones related to Vitis Status and Genetic Factors
In this article: Woodham and Alexander (1966) demonstrated differences in yield between Sultana vines [...]
Effects of Thermotherapy and Virus Status on Yield, Annual Growth and Grape Composition of Sultana
In this article: A high yielding Sultana clone, H5, infected with yellow speckle and [...]
Effects of Time of Season, Fruit Depth and Covering at Night when Ground Drying, on Acceptable Moisture Content of Sultana Raisins
In this article: A number of factors involved in the ground drying of sultana [...]
