Recent Advances in Vineyard and Grape Quality Management

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Science and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 7116

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Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari (DISAFA), Università degli Studi di Torino, 10124 Turin, Italy
Interests: vineyard management and grape quality; vineyard microclimate and its influences on grape ripening; secondary metabolites in grapes; biodiversity expressions in vineyards; ICT in precision viticulture

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Viticulture is one of the most widespread agricultural methods on the planet thanks to the adaptability of its plant species to different environments. Furthermore, both the table grape and wine grape sectors generate important economic exchanges for many countries worldwide. However, challenges facing the sector in the near future include the contrast or mitigation of the effects of climate change, lowering of the environmental impact of crop management, the use and exploitation of precision agriculture techniques, and responding to changing consumer demands. In addition, the colonisation of new wine-growing areas and variations in weather and climatic conditions are expected, even in the most traditional viticultural environments. Such challenges require the development of new approaches to vineyard and grape quality management. To better manage changes and challenges, proactive attitudes and behaviours are needed. There is a need for researchers in this area to identify and propose techniques that can meet the different needs of viticulturists while also maintaining the quality of grapes and wines that have decreed the success of the entire wine sector.

This Special Issue will present the latest research on innovation in viticulture, with a specific focus on grape quality. We aim to provide a platform for the dissemination of knowledge and techniques addressing various aspects of innovation in vineyard practices and their relations with grape quality, with the aim of offering tools to growers and scientists that improve the resilience of this important agriculture sector. Contributions involving cultivation techniques, approaches to vineyard problems, or new methodologies for grape quality assessment, such as non-destructive methods, remote sensing, application of prediction or simulation modelling, are of particular interest.

Prof. Dr. Silvia Guidoni
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • vineyard practices
  • grape quality components
  • climate change
  • vineyard sustainability
  • precision viticulture
  • remote sensing
  • methods for grape quality assessment

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Assessment of Selected Parameters for Determining the Internal Quality of White Grape Cultivars Grown in Cold Climates
by Marta Czaplicka, Kacper Parypa, Adam Szewczuk, Ewelina Gudarowska, Magdalena Rowińska, Muhamad Alfiyan Zubaidi and Agnieszka Nawirska-Olszańska
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(11), 5534; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app12115534 - 30 May 2022
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Viticulture in a cool climate is more challenging than in traditional wine regions. Due to the weather conditions, the berries may not achieve their full maturation composition. Therefore, suitable grape cultivars should be selected for cultivation in cool climate regions. The aim of [...] Read more.
Viticulture in a cool climate is more challenging than in traditional wine regions. Due to the weather conditions, the berries may not achieve their full maturation composition. Therefore, suitable grape cultivars should be selected for cultivation in cool climate regions. The aim of this research was to compare selected grape cultivars grown under the same climatic conditions in terms of their antioxidant activity, chemical composition, and macronutrient contents. Their dry matter content, total soluble solids, pH, total acidity, and vitamin C were also analyzed. This research confirmed the existence of differences between the cultivars regarding their antioxidant activity, total soluble solids and polyphenols, and content of vitamin C and macronutrients. Full article
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Analyses of Xylem Vessel Size on Grapevine Cultivars and Relationship with Incidence of Esca Disease, a Threat to Grape Quality
by Renzo Foglia, Lucia Landi and Gianfranco Romanazzi
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(3), 1177; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app12031177 - 23 Jan 2022
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Esca disease is one of the most important grapevine trunk diseases. It seriously reduces the quality and quantity of grapevine production, and results in a shorter vineyard lifespan. Previous studies have suggested that wide xylem vessel diameter favours development on grapevine of Phaeomoniella [...] Read more.
Esca disease is one of the most important grapevine trunk diseases. It seriously reduces the quality and quantity of grapevine production, and results in a shorter vineyard lifespan. Previous studies have suggested that wide xylem vessel diameter favours development on grapevine of Phaeomoniella chlamydospora, one of the fungi involved in esca, thus affecting disease susceptibility. In this study, cultivars mainly originated from European countries, 27 white-berried and 24 red-berried grapevine cultivars, were grown in the same experimental vineyard and were analysed for xylem vessel sizes (as diameter and frequency) for correlation with esca incidence. In this study, the cultivars showed significant differences in the xylem vessel parameters. However, no relationship was detected between vessel size and esca incidence in the field. Overall, white-berried cultivars showed wider vessel diameters than red-berried cultivars. The relationship between xylem vessel size in the red-berried and white-berried cultivars and incidence of esca symptoms is discussed. We suggest that vessel anatomy profiles can provide useful information for further investigations on grapevine genotype structure–esca incidence relationships. Full article
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Tuning Potassium Fertilization to Improve pH and Acidity in Glera Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) under a Warming Climate
by Patrick Marcuzzo, Federica Gaiotti, Marco Lucchetta, Lorenzo Lovat and Diego Tomasi
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(24), 11869; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app112411869 - 14 Dec 2021
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Potassium concentration in grape berries can affect acidity and pH in must and wines. Under the current warming scenario, where preserving equilibrated value for these grape parameters is increasingly challenging, K fertilization could represent a tool to manage grape composition. In this study, [...] Read more.
Potassium concentration in grape berries can affect acidity and pH in must and wines. Under the current warming scenario, where preserving equilibrated value for these grape parameters is increasingly challenging, K fertilization could represent a tool to manage grape composition. In this study, the effect of potassium fertilization was investigated over 4 years (2013–2016) in field-grown grapevines (Vitis vinifera cv. Glera). Four different potassium rates (0, 15, 30, 60 kg K2O ha−1 year−1) were tested and agronomic responses, grape quality as well as K concentration in the berry were recorded over the four years. At harvest, yield parameters and total soluble solids were unaffected by potassium fertilization. On the contrary, the titratable acidity of the musts was increased by the higher rate of potassium (K60), and both tartaric and malic acids showed higher values when the K rate was higher. K fertilization did not affect the pH, as all the treatments displayed comparable pH values and in an optimal range for winemaking. Overall, in our experimental conditions, medium potassium inputs showed better results on Glera grape quality compared to low K rates, by promoting higher titratable acidity levels without altering the pH in musts. Full article
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