Mechanical Harvesting of Muscadine Grapes
The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) has discovered that muscadine grapes can detach from the vine more easily, leading to the possibility of mechanical harvesting instead of paying for manual labor to harvest the grapes by hand. The grapes detach at the pedicel, the stalk holding the fruit to the plant, and in muscadine grapes this pedicel is quite strong, leading to a stronger force needed to remove the fruit. Researchers are looking into the factors that make this force weaker so the grapes can be harvested with machines. Read more about this using the link below.
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