Projects
COST 858
project name: Viticulture: Biotic And Abiotic Stress - Grapevine Defence Mechanism And Grape Development
initiating country: The European Union
programme area: ESF – European Science Foundation contract type: ESF COST
contract/proposal/call number: 858
status: active
start date: October 2002 duration: 84 months projected finish date: October 2009
Keywords
Fields of Research:
Oenology and Viticulture
Project Budget
Participants
Note that the follow people may not represent the full extent of the consortium. FEAST has tried to identify the Australian participants, and their collaborators (or coordinator), within the project. Also note that Australian participation may not necessarily be on a formal level. Further details about the partners in this project can be found at the website listed below.
| name | organisation | state or country |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Matthew Hayes | CSIRO | SA, Australia |
| INRA | France |
Further information
WWW: www.bordeaux-aquitaine.inra.fr/cost858_eng
summary:
The main objective of the Action is to increase our knowledge of the biological phenomena involved during the key stages of grape ripening, defence against fungal diseases and resistance to drought, thus allowing significant improvement of viticultural practices during vine development and berry ripening.
These objectives require a wide range of expertise and make it necessary to build a project at the European scale. The network to be created is needed to take full advantage of the European geographical space and of its different pedoclimatical conditions. The general strategy is to create an organized network which will generate and organize basic data on vine genomics and vine ecophysiology, comparable to that developed on crops of similar importance (wheat, rice, maize). This network will associate knowhow and expertise from a wide body of researchers including grapevine growers, agronomists, plant physiologists, biochemists, molecular biologists and geneticists.
This general strategy can be detailed as follows:
1. to define common measurements and standards, for the assessment of grape development and ripening under various internal (genetic) and external (water status, phytopathogen attacks) constraints.
2. to collect and to connect all the data and tools concerning the genetical background of rootstocks, scions and expressed sequence tags.
3. to assess the expression of genes under the conditions defined in (1), in order to find new markers of ripening, and the most relevant genes involved in resistance to biotic (fungal diseases) and abiotic stress (especially drought).
These strategies are linked since molecular biology tools can generate considerable information on berry growth and vine response to environment. This will lead to the design of new predictive tools and viticultural practices more friendly to the environment, and to the production of safer wines.
The Action will also contribute to the mapping of genes which control grape quality traits. This resource, which is essential for accelerated breeding, is presently critically lacking.
It will provide a basis to develop proteomic approaches which may be envisaged as a continuation of this Action. Indeed, protein translation, protein stability and post-translational modifications may play a significant part to alter the final enzymatic activity resulting from gene expression (transcripts). Although several informal contacts have been made with proteomic platforms, the proteomic approach is not an integral part of the present proposal, to allow a better focus and a realistic size, and because the methodological tools are quite different from that of the transcriptomic approaches.
Source: COST
