Jaeger 70 is a hybrid of two American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 species of grape

Grape

A grape is a non-climacteric fruit, specifically a berry, that grows on the perennial and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten raw or they can be used for making jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, wine, grape seed extracts, raisins, molasses and grape seed oil. Grapes are also...

, Vitis lincecumii

Vitis lincecumii

Vitis lincecumii is a type of grape. It is often referred to by the nicknames: Big Summer Grape, Pine Wood Grape, Post Oak Grape, Sand Grape, South Western Aestivalis, Turkey Grape, and Vine Wood Grape....

 and Vitis rupestris

Vitis rupestris

Vitis rupestris is a kind of grape native to the Southern and Western United States that is known by many common names including July, sand, sugar, beach, bush, currant, ingar, rock, and mountain grape. It is used for breeding several French-American hybrids as well as many root stocks. ...

. It was developed by Hermann Jaeger

Hermann Jaeger

Hermann Jaeger , who was a native of Switzerland, was a celebrated enologist and recipient of the French Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor for his part in saving the French wine industry from the deadly phylloxera louse....

, of Missouri, who named it Munson after his friend and fellow grape breeder, T.V. Munson

Thomas Volney Munson

Thomas Volney Munson often referred to simply as T.V. Munson, was a horticulturist and breeder of grapes in Texas.-Background:...

, however it is the selection number that has made it into common usage. The grape's primary importance is as the female progenitor of many French American hybrid grapes

Hybrid grapes

Hybrid grapes are grape varieties that are the product of a crossing of two or more Vitis species. This is in contrast to crossings between grape varieties of the same species, typically Vitis vinifera, the European grapevine. Hybrid grapes are also referred to as inter-specific crossings...

 in the breeding program run by viticulturist Albert Seibel

Albert Seibel

Albert Seibel was a French physician and viticulturist who made hybrid crosses of European wine grapes with native North American grapes...

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