Scientists in China's nascent wine industry are using genetics and artificial intelligence to address imperfect weather conditions, as well as anticipate future problems that might be wrought by rising global temperatures.
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00:00We hope to get a good shape of the parent and the child through hybridization.
00:28For example, the negative version has a better resistance to cold and heat,
00:32while the positive version has a better texture and flavor.
00:59I think during the last 10 years, even in Europe, they changed their mind.
01:06They changed their opinion.
01:08They started to welcome the interspecies varieties
01:13because they have a very high resistance to disease, drought, to different things.
01:20And of course, they maintain a rather high quality.
01:29China
01:48We are most afraid of climate instability.
01:51The sudden cooling, the ice-thin weather, and the extremely cold winter weather
01:58are all harmful to agriculture, especially to the production of grapes.
02:02So basically, all the grape wineries are most worried about these things.
02:08You see, they are so different.
02:10These are the roots.
02:12Like cells, we provide genes.
02:16I will give you an example.
02:18So this is our grape.
02:23We want to know if we plant some vineyards in a given position,
02:29whether that position will keep the sustainability in the context of climate change.
02:36So what will happen in the next 10 years, 30 years, or 50 years, or 100 years?