Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The growing of grapes -- 2. The grapevine and its relatives -- 3. The structure of the grapevine: vegetative and reproductive anatomy -- 4. Developmental physiology: the vegetative grapevine -- 5. Developmental physiology: flowering and fruiting -- 6. The cultivated grapevine -- 7. Genetic improvement of grapevines