Grapevine Breeding Programs for the Wine Industry (προγράμματα καλλιέργειας αμπέλου για την οινική βιομηχανία - έκδοση στα αγγλικά)

Grapevine Breeding Programs for the Wine Industry

Grapevine Breeding Programs for the Wine Industry: Traditional and Molecular Techniques summarizes recent trends in grapevine breeding, both in terms of research and practical programs. The first group of chapters covers the challenges faced by breeders and existing and emerging techniques used to combat them. Two further groups of chapters focus on grapevine breeding programs in different wine-producing countries around the world. With authoritative contributions from experts across the world’s winemaking regions, this book will be an essential reference for all those involved in viticulture and oeneology wanting to explore new methods, understand different approaches and refine existing practices.

Table of Contents

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Part One. Common Issues in Grapevine Breeding
1. Traditional grapevine breeding techniques
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Procedures in cross breeding
1.3. Limitations for cross breeding
1.4. Future perspectives of cross breeding
2. Molecular grapevine breeding techniques
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Technical outline
2.3. Relevance and role in current and future scientific and commercial work
2.4. Future trends
2.5. Conclusions
2.6. Sources of further information and advice
Part Two. European Grape Breeding Programs
3. Grapevine breeding in Austria
3.1. Introduction to the Austrian situation
3.2. Professional bodies, research, and interest groups
3.3. Purpose of grapevine breeding
3.4. Today’s cultivars and their genetic background
3.5. Ancient donor vines and their key role
3.6. Diversity of grapevines and grapevine families
3.7. Wild vines and their link to actual genotypes
3.8. Newly crossed varieties of recent years
3.9. Future perspectives for new varieties
3.10. Molecular tools for grapevine breeding
3.11. Transgenic vines
4. Grapevine breeding in France – a historical perspective
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The breeders
4.3. Naming the French hybrids
4.4. Conclusions
5. Grapevine breeding programmes in Germany
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Clonal selection
5.3. Cross-breeding
5.4. Rootstock breeding
5.5. Individual breeding programmes and institutes
5.6. Private grape breeders in Germany
5.7. Concluding remarks
6. Grapevine breeding in Hungary
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Rootstock breeding
6.3. Breeding table grape varieties
6.4. The breeding of wine grape varieties
6.5. Clonal selection
6.6. Maintenance and use of varieties
6.7. Ampelography
6.8. Hungarian grape breeders
7. Grapevine breeding programs in Italy
7.1. Introduction
7.2. The major ongoing grapevine breeding programs in Italy
8. Grapevine breeding programmes in Portugal
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Early grapevine breeding efforts in Portugal
8.3. Widespread selection of ancient wine grape varieties in Portugal
8.4. Methodological innovation phase
8.5. Emergence of genetic erosion and strategies to counteract it
8.6. Stakeholders and the organizational structure of diversity management in Portugal
9. Grapevine breeding and clonal selection programmes in Spain
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Clonal selection in Spain
9.3. Breeding of new grapevine varieties in Spain
9.4. Future prospects
9.5. Sources of further information
10. Grapevine breeding in Central and Eastern Europe
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Evaluation of grapevine gene sources as a basis of successful breeding and selection
10.3. Rootstock breeding and selection in the Central European region
10.4. Breeding and selection of wine grape cultivars of Vitis vinifera L.
10.5. Breeding and selection of cultivars showing an increased resistance to fungal diseases and winter frosts
10.6. Breeding and selection of table grapevine cultivars
Part Three. Grape Breeding Programs in the New World
11. Grapevine breeding programs in Brazil
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Germplasm banks
11.3. Brazilian grapevine breeding programs
11.4. Future trends
11.5. Sources of further information and advice
12. Grapevine breeding in China
12.1. General introduction to the grape and wine industry in China
12.2. History and major viticultural areas in China
12.3. Wild Vitis germplasm and utilization in China
12.4. Grape-breeding programmes in China
12.5. Conclusions and future trends
13. Grapevine breeding in Canada
13.1. Grape breeding in Ontario
13.2. Grape breeding in British Columbia: the grape breeding programme in Summerland, British Columbia
13.3. Grape breeding in Nova Scotia
13.4. Conclusions
14. Grapevine breeding in the Eastern United States
14.1. Cultivar selection in the nineteenth century
14.2. Breeding programme at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell University)
14.3. Table grapes
14.4. Wine grapes
14.5. Molecular breeding
14.6. Conclusions
15. Western United States grapevine breeding
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Grapevine breeding at public institutions
15.3. Grapevine breeding programmes within private companies
16. Grapevine breeding in the Southern United States
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Southern US grape industry perspective
16.3. Breeding grapevines for the Southern US
16.4. Cultivar development
16.5. Southern grape breeding programs
16.6. Future trends
17. Grapevine breeding in the Midwest
17.1. Introduction
17.2. Minnesota
17.3. Wisconsin
17.4. Nebraska
17.5. South Dakota
17.6. North Dakota
17.7. Missouri
17.8. Illinois
17.9. Conclusions
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