Plasticity of the Berry Ripening Program in a White Grape Variety.

ABSTRACT: Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is considered one of the most environmentally sensitive crops and is characterized by broad phenotypic plasticity, offering important advantages such as the large range of different wines that can be produced from the same cultivar, and the adaptation of existing cultivars to diverse growing regions. The uniqueness of berry quality traits reflects complex interactions between the grapevine plant and the combination of natural factors and human cultural practices which leads to the expression of wine typicity. Despite the scientific and commercial importance of genotype interactions with growing conditions, few studies have characterized the genes and metabolites directly involved in this phenomenon. Here, we used two large-scale analytical approaches to explor

SUBMITTER: Dal Santo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4940403 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature