The final Innovine symposium during which will be presented the main findings obtained during the four years of the project, will take place in Toulouse - South West of France - on the 16^th and 17^th of November 2016. The first day will be more addressed to scientists and will be divided into two sessions: managing drought and berry quality in a context of climate change; managing pests and diseases in vineyards through resistant varieties....Read more

Researchers from the University of La Rioja and ICVV in Spain have developed a new algorithm based on artificial vision techniques to determine automatically the number of flowers per inflorescence using a smartphone camera under field conditions. Measurements made on 132 inflorescences showed a good correlation (R2=0.91) between the manual counted and calculated through image processing numbers of flowers... Read more

Bordeaux, April 10-13, 2016. The wine industry, more than any other crop industries, needs to adapt to climate change. INRA is pleased to invite you in Bordeaux to share common knowledge base on climate change issues, as well as gathering data, defining adaptation strategies and providing decision rules to address the critical issue of climate change adaptation for the wine industry. The 3-day symposium is planned in four sessions...Read more

Several genes or loci associated with downy and powdery mildews resistances have been identified in grapevines originating from America (Muscadina rotundifolia, V.rupestris, V.lincecumii), Asia (V.amurensis, V.romanetii) or Eastern Europe (Vitis vinifera L. cv Kishmish Vatkana). For Black rot, a secondary disease that should emerge with the expansion of resistant varieties and the reduction of the spraying targeted against downy mildew, sources of resistance in grapevine are very rare and limited to the...Read more

The University of Piacenza in Italy has been investigating for several years the use of biocontrol agents including Ampelomyces, a group of hyperparasitic fungi, to fight against grapevine powdery mildew. Efficacy of sanitation has been previously evaluated in Northern Italy and the application of the biofungicide AQ10® WG based on Ampelomyces quisqualis gave good results when it was applied late in the growing season. The fungus conidia were able to parasitize the powdery mildew spores which halved disease severity on bunch until the pea-sized berries stage in the following season. The research works conducted in Innovine showed that the Ampelomyces spraying couldn’t be .…Read more

Montepulciano and Sangiovese are two heavily spread Italian cultivars that are known to show distinct responses to drought stress. While Sangiovese has been described as an anisohydric variety, Montepulciano is known to have a near-isohydric behaviour. Montepulciano leaves showed almost complete stomatal closure at higher leaf and stem water potentials than Sangiovese. Transcriptomics works conducted by the University of Verona allowed to study the expression of 1000 genes in samples from these two varieties collected at different time point after a water stress was applied. Differences in responses were observed between the two cultivars…Read more

The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) from Piacenza in Italy is involved directly or indirectly through Horta, its spin-off company, in several activities conducted in InnoVine. The outcomes obtained from the project helped the University to activate next September a new Master in English dedicated to innovation in Viticulture and Enology...Read more