🍇 Munson

Munson, also recorded as Jaeger 70, is a black-berried interspecific grape from the United States. VIVC lists the parentage as Jaeger 43 × Jaeger 60 (open pollination) and names Hermann Jaeger as breeder; the species is given as a Vitis interspecific crossing.

According to VIVC the flowers are female, seed formation is complete and the use is wine grape. The passport lists the resistance loci Ren3, Ren9 and Rpv3.2, without stating a degree of resistance. Accessions are held by six institutions (codes DEU454, FRA139, USA 07, USA 09, USA028, USA167), and SSR marker data exist for the variety.

Hermann Jaeger was born on 23 March 1844 in Brugg, Switzerland, and emigrated to the United States in 1864. He settled near Neosho, Newton County, Missouri, in 1865 and planted his first vines in 1866. The Missouri Encyclopedia credits him with about one hundred grape varieties and with a mixture of sulfur, iron sulfate and copper sulfate against downy mildew, an early experiment in spraying to control crop disease. It adds that French growers sought disease-resistant American vines against phylloxera, and that Jaeger grafted Concord and Virginia cuttings onto hardy wild Ozark grapes.