Vitis vinifera cultivar:Merlot Raw sequence reads. Vitis vinifera cultivar:Merlot

Vintners often believe that better wines are produced from small berries due to a higher skin to berry weight ratio. We characterized how field grown Merlot berries differ in their transcriptional program based on berry size. We considered two extreme size classes and compared the whole genome gene expression (RNA-sequencing) in the skin throughout development.