Grapevine biotechnology is one of the most promising developments in the global wine
industry, which is increasingly faced with conflicting demands from markets, consumers and …

The new plant breeding technologies (NPBTs) have recently emerged as powerful tools in
the context of 'green'biotechnologies. They have wide potential compared to classical …

Grapes are grown worldwide, on about 7.9 million ha, and are used to produce wine, raisins,
juice, jam, concentrate, and seed oils, as well as fresh fruit. Grapes (Vitis sp.) are members …

Wild crop relatives have been playing enormously important roles both in the depiction of
plant genomes and the genetic improvement of their cultivated counterparts. They have …

The introduction of fungi–particularly powdery and downy mildew–and of phylloxera during
the second half of the 19th century was the catalyst to initiate enormous grapevine breeding …

The remarkable propagative aptitute of grapevine is one of the key factors contributing to its
success as a cultivated species and to the spread of the domesticated grapevine …

Somatic embryogenesis has been defmed as the initiation of embryos from plant somatic
tissues closely resembling their zygotic counterparts (Ammirato, 1983). This morphologic …

Embryogenic cell suspensions of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) were successfully
cryopreserved by encapsulation-dehydration and subsequently regenerated into plants …

Genetic engineering offers the potential to improve elite cultivars for individual traits such as
disease resistance. For grapevines, resistance to fungal pathogens is highly desirable …

Like most woody plants, grapevine is classically improved through vegetative methods or
conventional breeding. Despite significant progress in genetic engineering, some cultivars …