Ecophysiology and Management of Grapevines Under Changing Climatic Conditions—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2025 | Viewed by 419
Special Issue Editor
Interests: grapevine abiotic stress; vineyard sensing; irrigation management
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate change poses ongoing challenges to vineyard sustainability and is drastically altering the global viticultural landscape with regard to site suitability, the selection of grapevine cultivars and rootstocks, and management practices. While viticulturists have a range of tools in their toolkit to adapt to and manage vineyards under changing environmental conditions, we have limited understanding of the inherent ability of grapevines to respond and adapt to these changing conditions, particularly over long (i.e., decadal) timescales. This lack of understanding could lead us to underestimate the potential plasticity that grapevines may possess to adapt to and even thrive in changing environments.
We previously published a Special Issue titled “Ecophysiology and Management of Grapevines Under Changing Climatic Conditions”, which contained several excellent papers. Based on the success of that Special Issue, we now propose a second edition of the same topic that will cover a broader range of applications.
In this Special Issue of Agronomy, we feature a series of papers on the dynamic nature of grapevine ecophysiological responses to a changing environment, covering both abiotic and biotic aspects, as well as the ability of grapevines to adapt under long timescales via a degree of plasticity. Due to the broad nature of this topic, paper topics will range from fundamental anatomical and biophysical changes to biochemical and physiological modifications related to grapevine plasticity. Through this Special Issue, we hope to increase our nascent understanding of the phenotypic plasticity of specific traits that grapevines possess to increase resilience to a changing climate.
Dr. Vinay Pagay
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change
- plasticity
- adaptation
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- priming ecophysiology
- yield
- quality
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