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 …

Background Fruit composition at harvest is strongly dependent on the temperature during
the grapevine developmental cycle. This raises serious concerns regarding the …

Background Global climate change will noticeably affect plant vegetative and reproductive
development. The recent increase in temperatures has already impacted yields and …

Aim: In the long term, genetic improvement is one of the major strategies to support
sustainable wine production in a changing climate. Over the past 5 years, we have …

Controlled environment farming (CEF) systems, including tunnel houses, glasshouses, and
vertical farms, are expanding worldwide. As the industry scales, growers need a broader …

Diurnal changes in gene expression occur in all living organisms and have been studied on
model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana. To our knowledge the impact of the nycthemeral …

Context and challenges: Like most other perennial crops, the grapevine needs to undergo a
juvenile period before fruiting. Thus, the development of reproductive organs from seedlings …

A rapid and sensitive method is presented for the determination of proline in grape berries.
Following acidification with formic acid, proline is derivatized by heating at 100° C for 15 min …

BACKGROUND The Microvine plant model displays unique reproductive organ behavior
and is suitable for grapevine fruit physiological studies, allowing one to undertake studies up …

Abstract Background and Aims New high‐throughput tools for transcriptomic analysis such
as RNA sequencing have been developed rapidly in recent years. These technologies …