Grapevine Capabilites Eurofins Agroscience Services 2010 www.eurofinsagro.com Grapevine capabilities Diseased vines reduce: . Grape quality . Yield . Ultimately disease affects wine 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) 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 2 Grapevine capabilities 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 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 3 Grapevine capabilities We have recently performed insect studies including: . Leaf Roller . Leaf Hopper . Grape Leaf Skeletonizer . When grown in light soils, grapes 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. 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 4 Focus on France 7 stations – 8 regions 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) 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 5 France 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 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 6 France 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, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Chasselat . Chenin noir, Gamay, Gewurztraminer, Grenache, Muscat, . Pinot gris, Pinot Noir, Riesling, Semillon, Viognier 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 7 Spain & Portugal 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 Rioja, Navarra and Cariñena . From EAS Seville we can cover the vine growing areas of Jerez, Huelva, Córdoba and Condado de Huelva . Finally, from EAS Canals at Valencia we can cover the areas of Alicante, Valencia and table grape area of Murcia and Alicante. 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 8 Spain & Portugal . 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, Macabeo, Albariño, Cabernet Sauvignon . Monastrell, Tempranillo, Moscatel de Alejandría, Garnacha . Tinta, Doña Blanca, Zalema, Palomino Fino . Palomino de Jerez, Pedro Ximénez, Viura, Loureira Blanca . Loureira Tinta, Malvasía, Merseguera, Trajadura, Touriga . Franca, Tinta Roriz, Godello 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 wines 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 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 11 Contact . France . christophe.narboux@eurofinsagro.com . Spain & Portugal . josemaria.lopez@eurofinsagro.com . Germany . Detlev.dirks@eurofins-gab.com . Italy . Francesco.picchi@eurofinsagro.com . USA . Brian.lange@eurofinsagro.com . All other regions; please contact • dave.clark@eurofinsagro.com 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 12.