In grapevine, serine peptidases from the subtilase family were recently associated to Plasmopara viticola resistance. This family in grapevine, first characterized in 2014, was re-analyzed last year and 82 subtilase genes were identified. However, in November of 2016, the National Center for Biotechnology Information database (NCBI) made a new public release of the grapevine genome annotation b...

Sugars play an important role in grapevine flowering. This complex process from inflorescence initiation to fruit maturity takes two growing seasons. Currently, most of the available data concern the involvement of sugars as energy sources during the formation of reproductive structures from initiation of inflorescences during the summer of the first year, until flower opening during the follow...

Cadophora luteo-olivacea is a lesser-known fungal trunk pathogen of grapevine which has been recently isolated from vines showing decline symptoms in grape growing regions worldwide. In this study, 80 C. luteo-olivacea isolates (65 from Spain and 15 from South Africa) were studied. Inter-simple-sequence repeat-polymerase chain reaction (ISSR-PCR) generated 55 polymorphic loci from four ISSR pri...

The use of nanocarriers (NCs), i.e., nanomaterials capable encapsulating drugs and releasing them selectively, is an emerging field in agriculture. In this study, the synthesis, characterization, vitro vivo testing biodegradable NCs loaded with natural bioactive products was investigated for control certain phytopathogens responsible wood degradation. particular, based on methacrylated lignin c...

Grapevine infections by Phaeoacremonium aleophilum in association with other pathogenic fungi cause complex and economically important vascular diseases. Here we present the first draft of the P. aleophilum genome sequence, which comprises 624 scaffolds with a total length of 47.5 Mb (L50, 45; N50, 336 kb) and 8,926 predicted protein-coding genes.

This paper presents an overview of an ongoing dissertation, whose main objective is to study the combined application of artificial life and evolutionary algorithm techniques to the development of simulation models for crop diseases, applied to the concrete case of downy mildew of the grapevine.

In a context in which the incidence and severity of grapevine fungal diseases is increasing as result both climate change modern management culture practices, reducing excessive use phytosanitary products viticulture represents major challenge. Specifically, trunk (GTDs), caused by several complexes wood decay or xylem-inhabiting fungi, pose challenge to vineyard sustainability. this study, eff...

Background: Expression of virus coat protein (CP) in Escherichia coli often leads to production of partially folded aggregated proteins which are called inclusion bodies. Grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV) is one of the most serious and widespread grapevine virus diseases around the world and in Iran.Objective: The main objective of this study was to find a s...