Rising temperatures and increasing CO₂ concentrations in the atmosphere due to climate change cause changes in the behaviour of perennial plants, such as grapevines, which are known to be climate sensitive.
In Mediterranean rainfed vineyards, cover cropping and dry mulching are increasingly implemented to improve soil structure, microclimate, and vine resilience, yet their effects on grapevine-associated microbiomes remain only partially understood.
Telomere length is emerging as a fast, sensitive, and cost-effective genomic biomarker for assessing stress exposure and physiological status in plants.
Winegrowing has always benefitted from a biogeographical perspective. Sub-appellations, appellations, and larger regions variously delineate and group areas based on their local climate, traditions and cultural practices.
Peniophora lycii (Höhnel and Litschauer 1907) is a white-rot, wood-decaying basidiomycete in the family Peniophoraceae (order Russales).
Isotopic analysis have been proven to be particularly useful within the wine industry, either for water stress characterization (with the δ13C) or for countering potential wine fraud (with the use of δ18O, δ13C and δ2H) (Santesteban et al., 2014).
In many traditional wine-growing regions of Europe, most of the vineyards remain rainfed.
An esteemed expression of vineyard terroir is that, due to an excellent alignment between genotypes and environment, minimal external input should be required to operate an efficient vineyard.
Marketed as a way to protect crops against increasing temperature and drought induced by climate change while producing sustainable energy, agrivoltaic systems are undergoing a rapid expansion globally.
More and more vineyards across Europe are adopting irrigation, alongside rainfall, to ensure crop sustainability in the context of climate change.
Vineyard management in a context of climate warming and environmental sustainability requires an assessment of the use of water resources, as grapevine needs clearly depend on rainfall patterns, particularly in spring.
Fungus disease-tolerant grape varieties appear to be a solution to cope with reduction of phytosanitary spraying in the vineyard as well as increasing disease pressure.
Intrinsic water use efficiency (WUEi) plays a key role in studying the physiological adaptation of grapevines to different environments, so it must be thoroughly assessed when selecting the most suitable cultivars for each region in the context of climate change.