Building Grapevine Resilience Under Climate Change: Abiotic and Biotic Stress Responses from Physiology to Sustainable Viticulture
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 143
Special Issue Editors
2. Research Center in Natural Resources, Environment and Society (CERNAS), Santarém Polytechnic University, Quinta do Galinheiro-S. Pedro, 2001-904 Santarém, Portugal
Interests: abiotic stress; berry ripening; grapevine physiology; plant water relations; scion-rootstock interaction
Interests: grapevine; abiotic stress; physiological responses; transcriptomics; irrigation; varietal selection
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change poses major challenges to viticulture through increasing temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, more frequent extreme climatic events, and the emergence of new pests and diseases. These abiotic and biotic stresses profoundly affect grapevine physiology, productivity, and berry quality, threatening vineyard sustainability worldwide. Grapevine resilience relies on complex, multi-scale mechanisms involving water relations, carbon allocation, hormonal signaling, root–shoot communication, and interactions with the soil microbiome.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide an integrated and up-to-date overview of the mechanisms underlying grapevine resilience to climate change, from physiological and molecular responses to field-scale sustainable viticulture practices. It seeks to explore how grapevines perceive, integrate, and adapt to abiotic and biotic stresses, either individually or in combination, and how these responses can be leveraged to improve vineyard resilience under future climate scenarios.
The scope covers multiple spatial and temporal scales, from root and leaf processes to whole-plant and vineyard-level responses, emphasizing translational research that connects mechanistic understanding with practical solutions for the entire grapevine sector (wine, table grape, raisin, must, and juice).
This Special Issue welcomes cutting-edge research addressing grapevine water relations, rootstock–scion interactions, abiotic and biotic stress responses, microbiome and symbiotic associations, and innovative monitoring and management approaches. We invite original research articles, reviews, short communications, methodological papers, and case studies that bridge physiology, agronomy, and sustainability, contributing to the development of climate-smart and resilient viticulture systems.
Dr. Olfa Zarrouk
Dr. Luísa Carvalho
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drought
- environmental stress
- heat stress
- microbiome
- mineral nutrition
- pests and diseases
- rootstock–scion interactions
- sustainable viticulture
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