Ecophysiology and Management of Grapevines Under Changing Climatic Conditions

Dear Colleagues, 

Climate change poses ongoing challenges to vineyard sustainability and is drastically altering the global viticultural landscape vis-à-vis site suitability, 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 little 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 underestimates the potential plasticity that grapevines may possess to adapt to and even thrive under changing environments.

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, and also the ability of grapevines to adapt under long timescales via a degree of plasticity. Due to the broad nature of this topic, papers will range from fundamental anatomical and biophysical changes to biochemical and physiological modifications relating 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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