INNOVATION

INNOVATION
AND EXPERIMENTATION

Over 200 years ago, Benjamin Franklin in one of his most quoted speeches stated: “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest”. Knowledge, as the expression of scientific research and experimentation, is something that aims at improving both the living conditions and the well-being of the human beings, as well as the environment around them. With that in mind Vivai Cooperativi Rauscedo continuously invest in Research and Innovation with the precise purpose of offering their customers the best solutions or, as Benjamin Franklin would say, the best interest.

VCR RESEARCH CENTER

Our response to future challenges

Nowadays, agriculture is called upon reacting to pressing environmental urgencies. Those urgencies are represented primarily by climate change and the consequent need for sustainability in agriculture. With this in mind, persuaded that the best way to predict the future is to create it, Vivai Cooperativi Rauscedo keeps investing in research and innovation with the creation of VCR Research Center: a hi-tech experimental center equipped with the most modern biotechnological techniques. Such innovations are necessary today and will prove indispensable as early as tomorrow.

Projects

embryo4grape

Embryo4Grape

The project aims at merging the embryo-rescue technique with the ongoing VCR genetic vine improvement program.

dsRNA

dsRNA for the control of Esca-disease precursor fungi

The project aims at initiating a research and experimentation process on gene-silencing mechanisms in Esca-disease precursor fungi.

Termoterapia

Thermotherapy

The project aims to assess the effects of the treatment – including protocols of different durations and temperatures – through biometric measurements and molecular analysis.

Mycorrhiza

Mycorrhiza

With this project Vivai Cooperativi Rauscedo aim at assessing the effects of different mycorrhiza-based formulations on the performances of the vines.

monitoraggio vite

Long-term monitoring of Grapevine Trunk Diseases in different conditions

The purpose of this research is to monitor the long term (15/20 years) development of diseases as for symptoms and associated microorganisms in different wine-growing areas and on different varieties.

neosvine

NeosVine

The project involves research activities for the implementation of an innovative genome-editing approach with the use of CRISPR/Cas9.

creazione nuove varietà resistenti

Creation of new UNIUD-IGA-VCR Resistant Varieties and new UNIMI Rootstocks

In the forthcoming years Vivai Cooperativi Rauscedo is committed to developing new grape varieties that will be able to withstand the most common diseases.

Ancient roots, revolutionary essence

Innovation is of the essence in confronting climate change and the consequent pressing needs for sustainability: mutate, evolve and bring about change, as the environment, the plants and the animals have done before us, are of capital importance. In order to pursue these goals, we must first and foremost be open to new solutions, even though such solutions could alter our well-established traditions, habits and standards (whether related to growing environments, types of crop/variety or organoleptic profile of the final product). Once the above is accepted, it will then be possible to make the best use of what research and innovation can offer us, and loosen, or at least soften, the resistances that keep us clung to the status quo.

Vivai Cooperativi Rauscedo are ready… Are you?

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