Temperature, water, solar radiation, and atmospheric CO2 concentration are the main
abiotic factors that are changing in the course of global warming. These abiotic factors …

Over decades, the concept of grape quality has evolved emphasizing its multidisciplinary
nature and that the same “desired quality” might correspond to even strikingly different …

Tartaric acid (TA) is an obscure end point to the catabolism of ascorbic acid (Asc). Here, it is
proposed as a “specialized primary metabolite”, originating from carbohydrate metabolism …

Perennial crops are vital contributors to global food production and nutrition. However, the
breeding of new perennial crops is an expensive and time-consuming process due to the …

Seedlessness is greatly prized by consumers of fresh grapes. While stenospermocarpic
seed abortion determined by the SEED DEVELOPMENT INHIBITOR (SDI) locus is the usual …

The necessity to adapt to climate change is even stronger for grapevine than for other crops,
because grape berry composition—a key determinant of fruit and wine quality, typicity and …

Grape (Vitis vinifera) color somatic variants that can be used to develop new grapevine
cultivars occasionally appear associated with deletion events of uncertain origin. To …

The Mediterranean basin is especially sensitive to the adverse outcomes of climate change
and especially to variations in rainfall patterns and the incidence of extremely high …

Grapevine yield is defined as the quantity of harvest, expressed as either grape mass or
wine volumeunits, which has been collected per surface unit are and per crop cycle. The …

Climate change is modifying the environmental conditions in all the vineyards across the
world. The expected effects on grape and wine production can be positive in some grape …