Grapevine Capabilites

Eurofins Agroscience Services 2010

www.eurofinsagro.com Grapevine capabilities

Diseased vines reduce: . quality . Yield . Ultimately disease affects quality

EAS Group has conducted many studies on grapevines including: . Field Residue . Efficacy . Dislodgeable Foliar Residue . Soil Dissipation . Radio-labelled Metabolism . Worker Exposure . Resistance Testing (using leaf disc method)

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Eurofins Agroscience Services, together with Eurofins STA, can offer a full portfolio of services on Vines for Grapevine diseases:

. Virus diseases such as Leaf roll, Rugose Wood, Decline/Fanleaf . Bacterial diseases such as Crown gall and Pierces disease . Fungal diseases such as Black foot, Petri, Cankers

These studies are available across Europe and North America

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We have recently performed insect studies including: . Leaf Roller . Leaf Hopper . Grape Leaf Skeletonizer . When grown in light soils, offer opportunity for nematode studies

Diseases include Botrytis and powdery mildew

VINE LEAFHOPPER Feeding punctures of this pest lead to the appearance of necroses - Veins become dry and the leaf lamina turns brown. Scorch spreads from the edge of the lamina to the Heavy infestations sometimes cause leaves to fall as early as August.

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Appilly, Oise (60) (Entreprise Decarsin)

St Pierre Bas-Rhin (67)

Séné Morbihan (56) Rouvres St Jean Loiret (45) Uchizy Gennes Saone et Loire (71) Maine et Loire (49)

Meauzac / St Nicolas Tarn et Garonne (82) Labo ADME, Vergèze

Elne, Pyrénées Orientales (66)

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The EAS Group locations in France cover the most important vine areas : . From Meauzac, we can cover SW France with the support of a new vine station close to our Meauzac facility . From Rouvres Saint Jean and Gennes, we can cover the « Val de Loire » area . Southern vine areas can also be managed from Elne . From Uchizy, we offer coverage of Bourgogne and Beaujolais area . The Alsace area is covered from Saint Pierre

. Future : Plans to extend to Bordelais area and south east

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New Acquisition News! . New vine station acquired early 2010 . Based in Saint-Nicolas-de-La-Grave, (Tarn et Garonne, Dpt. 82) France . Offers coverage of SW region of France

More than 40 varieties available including: . Cabernet, , , Chasselat . Chenin noir, , Gewurztraminer, , Muscat, . Pinot gris, , , Semillon, Viognier

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In Portugal and Spain, we provide full coverage of the main grape growing areas in these two countries:

. From EAS Monçao (North of Portugal) we can cover the Rías Baixas, Ribeiro and Bierzo areas in North of Spain and Miño and Douro areas in Portugal . Our base located in Zaragoza (North East of Spain) can cover the areas of Alella, Campo de Borja, La , Navarra and Cariñena . From EAS Seville we can cover the vine growing areas of Jerez, Huelva, Córdoba and . Finally, from EAS Canals at Valencia we can cover the areas of Alicante, Valencia and table grape area of Murcia and Alicante.

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. We can offer grape downy mildew with irrigated and inoculated trials at any of our sites from May to September . Also, we have extensive experience doing trials in powdery mildew, from April to September and botrytis, from May / June to September.

Many varieties available for trials including: . Chenín, , Albariño, Cabernet Sauvignon . Monastrell, , Moscatel de Alejandría, Garnacha . Tinta, Doña Blanca, Zalema, Fino . Palomino de Jerez, Pedro Ximénez, Viura, Blanca . Loureira Tinta, Malvasía, Merseguera, Trajadura, Touriga . Franca, Tinta Roriz, and Caíño Tinto

7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 9 The USA

The EAS Group can conduct trials on vines across the major vine growing areas of the USA The major growing areas for grapes in the United States are: . California; . San Joaquin Valley . Central and Northern Coast regions of Paso Robles . Napa valley . Willamette Valley of Oregon . The Columbia Basin in Washington . Finger Lakes Region of New York

7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 10 Germany

. In Germany, about 100,000 hectares of nearly 100 varieties are grown . For the white Riesling and Müller- Thurgau are perhaps the most important . Where red wines are concerned, Pinot Noir and Major wine regions of mid-southern Germany Dornfelder are probably the most important

The EAS Group can conduct trials on vines across the major vine growing areas of the Germany

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. France . [email protected] . Spain & Portugal . [email protected] . Germany . [email protected] . Italy . [email protected] . USA . [email protected]

. All other regions; please contact • [email protected]

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