Five leaflets explore grapevine alternatives
ENDURE’s grapevine case study team has recently published a series of five leaflets in the From Science to Field series tackling subjects as varied as reducing herbicide use, Decision Support Systems, mating disruption, the use of microbial biocontrol agents and new disease-resistant grape varieties.
Besides their focus on grapevine, the publications have in common a desire to identify the bottlenecks and conditions which would favour the adoption of more sustainable protection practices for grapevine.
The importance of this task can be judged by the scale of the industry in Europe - Member States account for more than half of the world’s vineyards according to the International Organisation of Vine and Wine - and the vulnerability of the most commonly grown cultivars to a range of pests and diseases, which has led to growers making intensive use of pesticides.
In particular, popular grape cultivars are very sensitive to fungi such as downy mildew, powdery mildew and Botrytis , berries are attacked by insects such as Lobesia botrana (European grapevine moth) and Eupoecilia ambiguella (grape berry or vine moth) and have to contend with numerous foliar, wood and root diseases.
You can download all of the leaflets below and can also read an interview with the grapevine case study leader Christian Gary, from INRA (France’s National Institute for Agricultural Research), whose team included researchers from ENDURE partners in France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Hungary and the Netherlands, in addition to contributions from the International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association and Chile’s University of Talca. Below we summarise the five leaflets.
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Grapevine Case Study Guide Number 1: Reducing herbicide use with cover cropping and tillage examines alternatives to using herbicides. Subjects covered include:
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Grapevine Case Study Guide Number 1 [pdf - 34189 kB]
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Grapevine Case Study Guide Number 2: Decision Support Systems (DSS) examines what can be a key element to help growers restrict pesticide applications to the minimum needed to ensure qualitative production. Subjects covered include:
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Grapevine Case Study Guide Number 2 [pdf - 60603 kB]
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Grapevine Case Study Guide Number 3: Mating disruption for the control of grape berry moths examines alternatives to using insecticides. Subjects covered include:
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Grapevine Case Study Guide Number 3 [pdf - 21425 kB]
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Grapevine Case Study Guide Number 4: The use of microbial biocontrol agents examines the use of microbial biocontrol agents such as Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt ) and Ampelomyces quisqualis (Aq ). Subjects covered include:
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Grapevine Case Study Guide Number 4 [pdf - 24067 kB]
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Grapevine Case Study Guide Number 5: New resistant grape varieties examines new varieties which make it possible to cut drastically the number of fungicide applications used to combat fungal diseases. Subjects covered include:
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Grapevine Case Study Guide Number 5 [pdf - 16101 kB]
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