Proceedings of 23rd GiESCO International Meeting (2025)

Context and purpose of the study. Cultivation techniques are widely recognized for their significant impact on the aroma profile of grapes and wines.

In plants, stress due to nutrient deficiency can significantly impair their development and productivity.

In view of increasing drought frequencies due to climate change, enhancing grapevine resilience to water scarcity has become vital for sustainable viticulture.

Drought stress is an increasingly prevalent environmental challenge with implications for grapevine physiology and productivity, as well as for the microbiomes associated with grapevine tissues.

Context and Purpose of Study. Grapevine Shiraz disease (SD), which is associated with Grapevine Virus A (GVA), is one of the highly destructive diseases affecting Australian and South African vineyards.

The isUP-AgrO project aims to enhance the capability of ISOPlexis - Centre of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Technology, a research unit from the University of Madeira, an outermost region of Portugal.

Low temperatures are required for the acquisition and maintenance of bud cold tolerance, which are necessary for grapevines to survive freezing temperatures in winter.

Context and purpose of the study. The grapevine domestication requested the need of pruning, which expose the vines to trunk pathogens, leading to the spread of vine trunk diseases.

Due to altered climatic conditions, grape berry sunburn has become one of the main challenges in contemporary viticulture.

Climate change impacts crop plants, plant pathogens, and their insect vectors and hence adds abiotic stress to the triangle of plant-virus-vector interactions.