L’effetto paesaggio sul sistema delle preferenze: i vini veneti tra evocazioni di consumo e determinanti di scelta

The main aim of WiSSaTech project (PRIN P2022LXY3A),supported by the Italian Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca and European Union-NextGenerationEU, is to investigate eco-friendly and safe alternatives to sulphur dioxide (SO2) in wine production.

An experiment was carried out to test the relevance of using satellite images (NDVI) to define locations of plant monitoring systems.

The sequential activity of miR156 and miR172 controls the juvenile to adult phase transition in many plant species, where miR156 abundance decreases while miR172 increases along plant development. Very little is known about phase transition in horticultural woody species, which show substantially long vegetative phases. In grapevine, phase transition seems to be dissociated, displaying a first transition from juvenile to adult vegetative state in the first year, coincident with tendril differentiation and a subsequent induction of inflorescences in place of some of tendrils in later years under flowering inductive environmental conditions. Since grapevine is a highly heterozygous species, the generation of genetically homogeneous material for replicated transcriptomic analyses from seed-derived plants was a main challenge.

The multi-annual study of the International Genetic Bank of the Grape Vine has shown that red varieties are enough, but the red varieties that produce high-quality red wine are minimal.

Effervescence and foaming properties are the main visual characteristics assessed by the consumer during
sparkling wine tasting.