Proteomic insights into early grapevine defense responses to downy and powdery mildew
Grapevine is a globally significant crop whose productivity is constantly threatened by fungal and oomycete diseases.
CRISPR/Cas9-induced trehalase knockout for drought resistance in grapevine
Climate change is predicted to alter the water availability where grapevine is cultivated, potentially impacting grape yield and quality [1].
Bridging in vitro and in planta models: metabolic insights into grapevine stress responses
Rapid climate changes and increasing biotic pressures compromise grapevine production systems by threatening grape quality and production yields, thus increasing phytochemical dependence as a widely adopted mitigation strategy.
Physiological performance and targeted gene expression dynamics in ‘Italia’ table grapevine under prolonged water deficit
Water availability constraints are becoming a defining factor in Mediterranean viticulture, which requires a deeper understanding of cultivar-specific adaptive mechanisms to sustain yield and fruit quality.
Evidence of trans-annual epigenetic memories of stresses in grapevine
Epigenetics refers to the layer of genetic information carried in chromatin beyond the DNAsequence, including histone modifications, DNAmethylation and small RNAs.
Seasonal dynamics in grapevine physiological and transcriptomic responses to combined water and nitrogen limitation
The increasing occurrence of drought events poses a major challenge for viticulture, as water deficit negatively affects vine yield and berry quality.
Root system architecture plasticity in Vitis plants under progressive soil drying
Prolonged water deficits driven by climate change are increasingly affecting the viticultural sector highlighting the need for drought-tolerant rootstocks.
Dissecting the role of EPFL9-2 in grapevine root system architecture through rhizotron-based phenotyping
Epidermal Patterning Factors (EPFs) constitute a family of small, highly conserved peptides that regulate diverse physiological and developmental processes in plants.
Development of a wine with controlled origin from PIWI grape varieties
On the international wine market, wines that have a controlled (and guaranteed) origin from a specific wine-growing region enjoy special attention.
VvRefPanel field trial reveals new genetic determinants for abiotic stress tolerance in Vitis vinifera
Despite the urgent need for boosting grapevine breeding to face the threat of climate change, the genetic determinism of key traits related to phenology and leaf physiology have yet to be explored in a large diversity panel in the field.
Supporting grapevine breeding and research through sensor-based phenotyping applications
Phenotyping refers to the description of phenotypes and can range from morphological characteristics to plant compounts.
A morphological approach for the early selection of grapevine rootstocks tolerant to water stress
Over the past two decades, grapevine rootstock breeding programs have increasingly favored genotypes with a tendency toward anisohydric behavior, which are better adapted to hot and arid conditions.
Early-stage phenomic prediction in grapevine (Vitis spp.) using near-infrared (NIR) reflectance spectra
Recent advances in high-throughput phenotyping, particularly near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, have prompted interest in phenomic selection as a powerful tool for breeding.
Which potential for Near Infrared Spectroscopy-based phenomic selection of grapevine rootstocks?
Developing rootstocks adapted to environmental constraints constitutes a key lever for grapevine adaptation to climate change.
Oenological identity and technological challenges of PIWI varieties
Disease-resistant grapevine varieties (PIWI) represent one of the most relevant achievements of contemporary grapevine breeding, developed in response to increasing environmental pressures, climate change, and the need to reduce pesticide inputs in viticulture.
Enhancing fruit quality of cold-hardy interspecific table grapes through gibberellic acid applications
The University of Minnesota has been breeding interspecific grapes for cold-climate production over the past 125 years.
Evaluation of fermentation kinetics and wine quality parameters of distinctive Florida muscadine wines fermented with autochthonous yeast strains
Commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae starter cultures dominate modern wine fermentation; however, reliance on genetically uniform strains may limit expression of regional characteristics,
Integrated genetic and functional analyses reveal PEPC and cMDH as antagonistic regulators of grape acidity
Breeding grape cultivars with optimized acidity is a priority for climate resilience, yet identifying causal regulators of malate metabolism remains challenging due to the complexity and long generation time of whole-vine functional studies.
Structural and regulatory variation in the grapevine genome
The grapevine genome harbors considerable levels of structural variation that represent an important source of functional variation and could result in high levels of cis-regulatory variation.
The role of genetics in adapting grapevine production to environmental challenges
The wine producing sector currently faces major challenges, particularly adapting to climate change and transitioning toward agroecological practices – notably reducing the use of plant protection products and synthetic fertilizers.