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Open AccessFrom acidity to sweetness: a comprehensive review of carbon accumulation in grape berries
Most of the carbon found in fruits at harvest is imported by the phloem. Imported carbon provide the material needed for the accumulation of sugars, organic acids, secondary compounds, in addition to the mater...
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Metabolite analysis reveals distinct spatio-temporal accumulation of anthocyanins in two teinturier variants of cv. ‘Gamay’ grapevines (Vitis vinifera L.)
White-fleshed grape cv. ‘Gamay’ and its two teinturier variants presented distinct spatial–temporal accumulation of anthocyanins, with uncoupled accumulation of sugars and anthocyanins in ‘Gama...
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Open AccessDissecting the control of shoot development in grapevine: genetics and genomics identify potential regulators
Grapevine is a crop of major economic importance, yet little is known about the regulation of shoot development in grapevine or other perennial fruits crops. Here we combine genetic and genomic tools to identi...
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Open AccessA sense of place: transcriptomics identifies environmental signatures in Cabernet Sauvignon berry skins in the late stages of ripening
Grape berry ripening is influenced by climate, the main component of the “terroir” of a place. Light and temperature are major factors in the vineyard that affect berry development and fruit metabolite composi...
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Genetic and Genomic Approaches for Adaptation of Grapevine to Climate Change
The necessity to adapt to climate change is even stronger for grapevine than for other crops, because grape berry composition—a key determinant of fruit and wine quality, typicity and market value— highly depe...
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Open AccessCorrection to: A molecular perspective on starch metabolism in woody tissues
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Open AccessA molecular perspective on starch metabolism in woody tissues
The elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of starch synthesis and mobilization in perennial woody tissues is of the utmost scientific and agricultural importance.
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Low source–sink ratio reduces reserve starch in grapevine woody canes and modulates sugar transport and metabolism at transcriptional and enzyme activity levels
Severe leaf removal decreases storage starch and sucrose in grapevine cv. Cabernet Sauvignon fruiting cuttings and modulates the activity of key enzymes and the expression of sugar transporter ...
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Open AccessVine nitrogen status and volatile thiols and their precursors from plot to transcriptome level
Volatile thiols largely contribute to the organoleptic characteristics and typicity of Sauvignon blanc wines. Among this family of odorous compounds, 3-sulfanylhexan-1-ol (3SH) and 4-methyl-4-sulfanylpentan-2-...
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Open AccessABA-mediated responses to water deficit separate grapevine genotypes by their genetic background
ABA-mediated processes are involved in plant responses to water deficit, especially the control of stomatal opening. However in grapevine it is not known if these processes participate in the phenotypic variat...
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Anthocyanin biosynthesis is differentially regulated by light in the skin and flesh of white-fleshed and teinturier grape berries
Light exclusion reduces the concentration and modifies the composition of grape anthocyanins, by altering the expression of genes involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis and transport, in a cultiv...
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Identification and functional characterization of grapevine transporters that mediate glucose-6-phosphate uptake into plastids
Two grapevine glucose-6-Pi plastidial transporters differently expressed in plant organs and in response to environmental and hormonal signals are characterized. They are involved in starch acc...
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Open AccessThe grapevine gene nomenclature system
Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is one of the most important fruit crops in the world and serves as a valuable model for fruit development in woody species. A major breakthrough in grapevine genomics was achieved i...
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Open AccessTranscriptional analysis of late ripening stages of grapevine berry
The composition of grapevine berry at harvest is a major determinant of wine quality. Optimal oenological maturity of berries is characterized by a high sugar/acidity ratio, high anthocyanin content in the ski...
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Open AccessEffects of abiotic stress on plants: a systems biology perspective
The natural environment for plants is composed of a complex set of abiotic stresses and biotic stresses. Plant responses to these stresses are equally complex. Systems biology approaches facilitate a multi-tar...
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Open AccessPurification and functional characterization of protoplasts and intact vacuoles from grape cells
During grape berry ripening, the vacuoles accumulate water, sugars and secondary metabolites, causing great impact in plant productivity and wine quality. However, the molecular basis of these compartmentation...
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The grapevine transcription factor WRKY2 influences the lignin pathway and xylem development in tobacco
Previous work has shown that transgenic tobacco plants constitutively over-expressing the Vitis vinifera L. transcription factor VvWRKY2 exhibit reduced susceptibility to necrotrophic fungal pathogens, suggesting...
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Isolation and Use of Protoplasts from Grapevine Tissues
Highly pure, intact and functional protoplasts can be obtained from plant tissues, which are readily amenable for challenging with exogenous sugars, acids, analogues, transport inhibitors and drugs. Thus, they...
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Open AccessGene expression profiling in susceptible interaction of grapevine with its fungal pathogen Eutypa lata: Extending MapMan ontology for grapevine
Whole genome transcriptomics analysis is a very powerful approach because it gives an overview of the activity of genes in certain cells or tissue types. However, biological interpretation of such results can ...
