Biotic and Abiotic Stress Management in Grapevine: Recent Advances and Major Breakthroughs

Dear Colleagues,

Grapevine is one of the most important crops in the world, occupying over 7 Mha of land for the production of wine, table and dried grapes. However, this crop is also highly susceptible to several biotic and abiotic stresses and, with climate change, new challenges will certainly arise. The current technological and analytical advances have allowed a better understanding of plant dynamics and mechanisms to deal with these threats, from omics approaches to robotics solutions and high-throughput phenotyping.

This Special Issue aims to bring together the community that tackles these challenges in grapevines to help create a broader image of possible future solutions for stress management in this crop. The Special Issue welcomes, but is not limited to, manuscripts that address the following topics:

• Biochemical studies on the molecular mechanisms of stress defense;
• Biocontrol and priming strategies at lab and field scale;
• Genetic resources, breeding strategies and phenotypic diversity;
• The impact of microbiome communities on stress management;
• Valuable agronomic traits;
• Novel bioinformatic tools;
• Robotic solutions for stress prediction;
• Phenotyping.

Dr. Rita B. Santos
Prof. Dr. Andreia Figueiredo
Guest Editors

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