Grapevine Response to Abiotic Stress
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 7270
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant physiology; adaptation to environment change; response to abiotic stress; gene expression
Interests: viticulture; grapevine ecophysiology; vineyard irrigation and cover cropping; precision viticulture
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Grapevine is one of the most important crops worldwide. Its main product feeds the wine sector, and is highly significant for agro-economy. A large proportion of vineyards are located in regions where soil and atmospheric water deficits, as well as high temperatures, place substantial constraints on grapevine vegetative growth, yield and berry composition. Global climate models predict for the future an increase in aridity in large areas with Mediterranean climate, driving the potential migration of vineyards to higher latitudes and altitudes. The predicted alterations in climate may have dramatic economic consequences in wine quality; this is profoundly linked with the ‘terroir’ concept, where climate plays a major role. The large genetic grapevine diversity contributes to a high potential of sensing and acclimation to environmental changes. The mechanistics and dynamics at physiological, ecophysiological and molecular levels are particularly useful in quantifying the effects of soil, weather, management and genetics and their interactions on grapevine growth and development.
The present Special Issue aims to bring together knowledge obtained through different disciplines that will help to shed light on the capacity of grapevine to cope with the challenges of climate changes in the near future, to assist agronomists and grape growers in choosing the most suitable cultivars, and to improve vineyard management under environmental stress conditions. Furthermore, this Special Issue will help breeders to target the relevant traits to be improved in order to achieve higher stress tolerance while maintaining yield and berry quality.
Dr. Sara Amâncio
Dr. Carlos Manuel Lopes
Dr. Alicia Pou Mir
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- acclimation
- adaptation measures
- climate change
- cold stress
- grapevine genetic selection
- heat stress
- phenotyping
- response to abiotic stress
- stress tolerance
- vineyard management
- Vitis vinifera
- water stress
- water use efficiency
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Shoot positioning influences the berry cluster water relations in grapevine
Authors: Zarrouk, O1,2*, Pinto, C3,4, Alarcón, MV5, Santos, L1, Flores-Roco, A5, Soares-David, T3,4, Amancio, S1, Lopes, C1, Carvalho, LC1
Affiliation: 1LEAF—Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
2Associação SFCoLAB – Laboratório Colaborativo para a Inovação Digital na Agricultura, Portugal
3INIAV – Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P. Oeiras, Portugal
4CEF—Forest Research Centre, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
5Area of Agronomy of Woody and Horticultural Crops. Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas de Extremadura (CICYTEX), Spain
Abstract: In this study we aimed at deciphering how the manipulation of canopy architecture could mitigate the abiotic stress typical of the summer season of a Mediterranean vineyard. Fourteen-year-old Moscatel grapevines grafted on 1103P, at the experimental vineyard of Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA-ULisboa), were monitored for two seasons. Two canopy shoot positioning treatments were applied: Vertical shoot positioning (VSP), with shoots tied and trained vertically with wires on both sides of the canopy; and Modulated shoot positioning (MSP), in which the west side upper foliage wire was released aiming at promoting the partial leaning of the shoots to provide cluster protection against sunburn. Clusters were sampled on the west side of the canopy at three phenological stages: pea size (PS), véraison (V) and full maturation (FM). Measurements included rachis hydraulic conductance, anatomy of rachis vascular tissues and gene expression of several aquaporins and ripening related genes.
Results show significant differences between seasons. No differences between treatments in Krachis and Krachis+pedicels at PS and V were observed. At FM, Krachis and Krachis+pedicels increased, more sharply in VSP than in MSP. Additionally, pedicels exerted a strong control of water flow in all stages, with circa 25% (PS), 40% (V) and 45% (FM) of cluster hydraulic resistance. The phloem to xylem ratio was reduced in MSP, compared to VSP, showing a redistribution of vascular tissues due to the training management. The rachis vascular area did not show significant differences between treatments.
The expression of 13 aquaporins from PIP, TIP, SIP and NIP families was monitored in pedicels and berries (pulp and skin). Significant differences in regulation were found, namely at the pedicel. Most aquaporins were downregulated in the pedicel at FM, except for VviTIP2;1 that was upregulated. High upregulation of several aquaporins was also observed in pulp, particularly at veraison. Less incidence of MSP on aquaporin gene expressions was observed in the skin.
The study pinpoints the role of canopy architecture in fruit water relations and in the response to stress during fruit development.
Title: Vineyard irrigation in the Douro region, a Review of different approaches
Authors: Anabela Carneiro
Affiliation: GreenUPorto—Research Centre for Sustainable Agrifood Production & DGAOT, Faculty of Sciences, Campus de Vairão, University of Porto, Rua da Agrária, 747, 4485-646 Vairão, Portugal
Title: Volatile characterization of recovery minority varieties from Castilla-La Mancha
Authors: Gonzalo Luis Alonso Díaz-Marta; Cristina Cebrián Tarancón
Affiliation: Spain
Title: Table grape response to the combination of water deficit and biostimulation
Authors: Alejandro Pérez Pastor
Affiliation: Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena