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Details for: DVIT 954, Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera, Semillon

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera

Top Name:

Semillon

Origin:

Donated – California, United States

Maintained:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Davis

Received by NPGS:

01 Jan 1983

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Vine

Life Habit:

Woody Vine

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Cutting	5 count		DVIT 954 0000C PL

Note: When you select cuttings, you will receive unrooted cuttings, not rooted plants, unless specific arrangements have been made with the curator.
This accession has been replaced by an alternate accession maintained in a micro-mesh screenhouse.

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera

Top Name:

Semillon

Origin:

Donated – California, United States

Maintained:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Davis

Received by NPGS:

01 Jan 1983

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Vine

Life Habit:

Woody Vine

Source History

Donated

01 January 1983.
California, United States
Comment: Donated to NCGR, Davis; Dr. Olmo, UC Davis, Viticulture Dept., received accession from Livermore, CA
Donor(s):

Olmo, Harold P., University of California

Accession Names and Identifiers

Semillon

Type: Unverified name

E141

Type: Donor identifier

Unknown identifier

X32:19-20

Type: Donor identifier

University of California, Davis, Viticulture Dept. vineyard location while under the care of Dr. Olmo

Olmo, Harold P. University of California

DVIT 954

Type: Site identifier

Colombier

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Goulon blanc

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Hunter River Riesling

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Malaga

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Sauternes

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

St. Emilion

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Narrative

Type = wine grape. Per Galet (see citation): "Growing tip: felty, white with rose margin, downy stem. Young leaves: downy, yellowish, bronze on the bulges. Leaf: orbicular 025-3-46, lateral sinuses 53 with pointed bases, contorted, bullate, crimped at the petiolar junction, thick, cobwebby and faintly pubescent below; petiolar sinus lyre-shaped, generally open; teeth convex, average. Shoot: green with pinkish brown nodes, very thick; tendrils small, thin. Cane clear beige with darker nodes, bloom very abundant at the nodes giving a purplish tint. Cluster: medium, winged, cylindrical , compact; berries medium 12 mm, round, white becoming pinkish at full maturity, slightly muscat flavor. The Bordeaux variety is the base of the great white wines of the Southwest, Sauterne being the best known in the United States. The over-ripe grapes are well suited to the effects of "noble-rot" (Botrytis cinerea) and in favorable (dry) years are picked individually in succcessive harvests to produce the unique dessert wines of the region. However, due to reduced demand for sweet white dessert wines, there is a tendency to use Semillion for the production of dry wines. Since as a dry varietal Semillion has been found to lack freshness and bouquet, it is often blended with 15 to 30 percent Muscadelle. Semillion is a vigorous, productive variety whose budbreak is average and maturity is midseason. It has some resistance to downy and powdery mildew and it resisted well the winter freezes of Montpellier. However, in humid years it is susceptible to ignoble rot. The selection of propagating wood must be very careful due to fanleaf virus infection."

Vitis vinifera L. subspp. vinifera

Genus:

Vitis

Subgenus:

Vitis

Family:

Vitaceae

Subfamily:

Vitoideae

Nomen number:

426915

Verified:

01/24/2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Vitis vinifera L. (215 active accession[s])
Vitis vinifera L. subsp. sylvestris Hegi (82 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Vitis vinifera L. var. sativa DC.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vitis vinifera L. subsp. sativa (DC.) Hegi

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
English	wine grape			1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	lambrusque			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
French	vigne			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
French	vigne vinifère			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Weinrebe			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italian	lambrusca			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Italian	vite			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Portuguese	vinho			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Spanish	parra			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	vid			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	vino			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6

Annotations

Nomenclature Name Change: 06 Aug 2002, from Vitis vinifera L. to Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera
Taxonomic Re-Identification: 24 Sep 2007, from Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera to Vitis vinifera L.
Taxonomic Re-Identification: 02 Oct 2007, from Vitis vinifera L. to Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera

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Citations

Galet, P. 1979. A practical ampelography: grapevine identification Comstock Pub. Associates, Ithaca, New York, USA. 89-90. Number of accessions cited: 0

Pedigree

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
CHEMICAL	1st Titratable Acidity	Percent Tartaric Acid for 50-100 berries	.51353		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
CHEMICAL	1st Lab Brix Measurement	Ave. percent sugar content, measured with a digital refractometer, for 50-100 berries, harvested after the field Brix > 20	22.3		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
DISEASE	Disease	Observation of presence of disease on fruit	Absent		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Berry Shape	Typical berry shape	3 - Roundish		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Berry Weight	Average weight of 50 berries	4.18		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Seed Color	Observation of typical seed color	13		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Flesh Firmness	Weight necessary for cracking the berries.	Medium		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Number of Seeds/Berry	Average number of seeds per berry for 10 fruit	1.7		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Seed Weight	Weight in grams of ten seeds.	0.8		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Cluster Weight	Average weight in grams of one cluster with two replicates.	661.2		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Sex of Flower	Observation during flowering, mean value of 10 inflorescences	3 - Hermaphrodite (Concord)		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Sex of Flower	Observation during flowering, mean value of 10 inflorescences	3 - Hermaphrodite (Concord)		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 954 0000D PL	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Sex of Flower	Observation during flowering, mean value of 10 inflorescences	3 - Hermaphrodite (Concord)		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Sex of Flower	Observation during flowering, mean value of 10 inflorescences	3 - Hermaphrodite (Concord)		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000D PL	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Flesh Color	Flesh colored or not colored	1 - Flesh not colored		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Leaf lobes on mature leaf	Observation of the number of lobes on mature leaves	2 - Three		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Leaf Shape of Mature Leaf	Shape of a mature count leaf on a count shoot.	2 - Wedge-shaped		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot Young Tip Color	Color of the young shoot tip	4 - Red		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot Young Tip Color	Color of the young shoot tip	4 - Red		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 954 0000D PL	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot habit	Observation of shoot habit	3 - Semi-erect		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot Tip Color Intensity	Intensity of the color of the young shoot tip	5 - Medium		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot Tip Color Intensity	Intensity of the color of the young shoot tip	5 - Medium		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 954 0000D PL	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot tip form	Observation of shoot tip form	5 - Fully-open		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Leaf Petiolar Sinus Tooth	Observation of petiolar sinus tooth presence	0 - Absent		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Berry Skin Pigment 2	Observation of typical skin color 2	1 - Green-yellow		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Bunch Density	Observation of cluster density	7 - Dense (berries not readily movable)		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	1st Cluster Length	Length of a first cluster in centimeters	161.21		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Bunch Morphology	Observation of cluster shape	9		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	1st Cluster Width	Width of a first cluster in centimeters	83.72		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Naked Vein	Observation of naked vein presence	0 - Absent		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Peduncle Length	Length of peduncle of a first cluster in centimeters	29.4		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Petiolar Sinus Mature Leaf	General shape of petiole sinus	3		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Percentage of Shot Berries	Observation of percent of shot berries	1		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bud Burst Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds are wooly	77		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 954 0000D PL	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	Bud Burst Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds are wooly	79		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 954 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bud Burst Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds are wooly	90		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000D PL	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	Bud Burst Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds are wooly	95		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Leaf Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds have a green leaf	83		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 954 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Leaf Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds have a green leaf	83		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 954 0000D PL	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	Bloom Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the grape flowers are in bloom	129		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 954 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bloom Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the grape flowers are in bloom	131		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 954 0000D PL	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	Bloom Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the grape flowers are in bloom	134		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000D PL	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	Bloom Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the grape flowers are in bloom	136		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Observation Date	Julian days from January 1 when laboratory observations were made.	232		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	1st Brix and TA Date	Julian days from January 1 when brix (LBRIX) and the Titratable Acidity (TITRATCID) were measured	232		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL
PRODUCTION	Flavor	Particular flavor of berries	0 - None (no especially distinctive flavor)		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 954 0000C PL