Long-term monitoring of Grapevine Trunk Diseases in different conditions
Partner
Italian and international Research Institutes
Contact Person
Prof. Gianfranco Romanazzi (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
Description
Wood diseases are one of the main viticulture issues worldwide. It is a complex of diseases caused by a still undetermined number of fungi, able to lead – in the best cases - to a significant reduction in production and - in the worst cases - to plant death, even after a few years from planting. The yearly losses amount to hundreds of millions of Euros, and no definitive solution to the problem is currently available.
Goal
The investigation of wood diseases is complicated by many intervening factors, such as the high number of pathogens involved, the undetermined latency period and the variability of observable symptoms, also depending on the climate effect and on the growing techniques. 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.
Results
Monitoring will provide us with important data on the long-term effects of the different variables involved in the disease development, while making possible to assess with greater detail the targets for the disease-controlling experimental tests to come.
