Evaluation of wood starch content on bench grafting success rate in grapevine

Extension of the growing season, compression of the annual growth cycle and higher frequency and severity of weather extreme events are consistent features of global warming. While mitigation of factors causing global warming is necessary in the medium-long term, wine growers need “ready to go” adaptation practices to counteract negative effects bound to climate change. This must be done in a sustainably way, meaning that remunerative yield, desired grape quality, low production cost and environment friendly solutions must be effectively merged. In this work, we will review contribution given over the last two decades prioritizing issues related to scion and rootstock choice, changes in vineyard floor management, new perception related to the use of irrigation in vineyards, adaptation practices aimed at decompress maturity, solutions to counteract or minimize damages due to late frost and sunburn and, lastly, some hints on how precision viticulture can help with all of this.

The Torrontés Riojano is an emblematic variety in the Calchaquí Salteño Valley. The obtaining of selected native yeasts is a tool of differentiation of the wines, highlighting unique characteristics of the terroir. Native yeasts were isolated from spontaneous fermentations of Torrontés grapes harvested in nine zones of the Valley. We obtained 45 isolates.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a multifactorial autoimmune disease associating demyelination and axonal degeneration developing in young adults and affecting 2–3 million people worldwide. Plant polyphenols endowed with many therapeutic benefits associated with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties represent highly interesting new potential therapeutic strategies. We recently showed the safety and high efficiency of grape seed extract (GSE), a complex mixture of polyphenolics compounds comprising notably flavonoids and proanthocyanidins, in an experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) mouse model of MS.

Da anni la ricerca viticola sta orientando le sue attenzioni verso lo studio della vocazionalità degli ecosistemi viticoli, perché fulcro della produttività della vite e qualità dei suoi frutti.

Field observations in Argentinean vineyards, have led to claim that phylloxera grow better in clay soils and under drip irrigation, than in sandy soils and flooding. The aim of this study was to assess phylloxera damagein vines under two irrigation methods orsoil textures in controlled conditions.