Plant and Food Research is using the latest in new technologies to help detect a damaging virus that secretly takes hold in grape vines.
It's trialling the use of artificial intelligence and sensing technologies to identify leaf roll virus - a virus the stops grapes ripening properly and changes their flavour profile.
Leaf roll virus, which is spread by mealy bugs, can kill vines.
Growers have, frustratingly, always had to work around the virus. They can test vines by taking a sample, but plant pathologist Gareth Hill says Plant and Food Research is trying to find less invasive ways of tracking it down.
