Objective
The strategic goal of the project is to help the European vineyard sector facing the increasingly global competition by meeting:
* Consumer demands for diversified high quality wines and concerns for food safety
* Citizens’ requests for environment-friendly production systems involving decreased or no use of pesticides and spare of not renewable natural resources
* Producers’ needs of plant material, tools and methods to help them cope with the negative impacts of climate change while responding to demands for quality, environmental friendliness and needs of profitability
To reach this overall goal, the project will:
* At the plant level, improve and design agricultural practices (canopy management, irrigation, fertilisation, training systems, pest and disease control, etc.) aimed at maximising berry quality, durable resistance to pests and and diseases, and adaptation to climate change (higher CO2, drought, UV light, and higher temperatures)
* At the vineyard level, design, develop and test innovative agronomic systems integrating new agricultural practices and taking into account the variability of constraints met by European vineyards grown under a wide range of environments
* At the breeding level, diversify grapevine varieties with regard to desirable adaptative traits building on tools and knowledge developed through international breeding and genomic initiatives.
The project will combine short, medium, and long-term approaches to respectively conceive innovative viticulture systems, design and test novel agronomic practices and decision support systems, and exploit the genetic diversity of grapevine that all together will ensure a progress towards sustainable viticulture.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-KBBE-2012-6-singlestage
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Coordinator
75007 Paris Cedex 07
France
Participants (27)
Participation ended
33076 Bordeaux Cedex
33000 Bordeaux
65366 Geisenheim
28006 Madrid
2784-505 Oeiras
1349 017 Lisboa
06484 Quedlinburg
7622 Pecs
33100 Udine
37129 Verona
20123 Milano
20122 Milano
92761 Antony Cedex
1164 Sofia
29122 Piacenza
30240 Le Grau Du Roi
91893 Orsay
1300 372 Lisboa
26200 Haro La Rioja
31670 Labege
4230 Asenovgrad
65375 Oestrich-winkel
29028 Ponte Dell Olio Piacenza
26006 Logrono
08720 Vilafranca Del Penedes
33095 Rauscedo Pn
75015 Paris