Water availability is arguably the most important environmental factor limiting crop growth
and productivity. Erratic precipitation patterns and increased temperatures resulting from …

Stilbenes are a small family of polyphenolic secondary metabolites that can be found in
several distantly related plant species. These compounds act as phytoalexins, playing a …

Phenolic compounds represent a large family of plant secondary metabolites, essential for
the quality of grape and wine and playing a major role in plant defense against biotic and …

Plants respond to drought stress through different physiological mechanisms. To highlight a
specific adaptation strategy related to stem photosynthetic activity, woody tissue …

Aim: We aimed to study the impact of water deficit on the concentration of key flavour and
phenolic secondary metabolites of wines. Methods and results: A drought-stress field trial …

Background Grape leaves provide the biochemical substrates for berry development. Thus,
understanding the regulation of grapevine leaf metabolism can aid in discerning processes …

In this work, we tested the effect of different regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) regimes on berry
flavonoid content and its relative biosynthetic pathways. Vines were subjected to six …

The eastern foot of Helan Mountains in Ningxia belongs to the semiarid area and has been
identified as the best wine grape producing area in China. In order to solve the problems of …

Global climate change and the expected increase in temperature are altering the
relationship between geography and grapevine (V. vinifera) varietal performance, and the …

Despite Vitis vinifera L. is a drought-tolerant species—rainfed traditionally grown in a very
diversity of climates—irrigation has more and more become a usual practice aimed to obtain …