VITICAST Operational Group: Innovative solutions for predicting fungal diseases in grapevines
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2019 -2021
- Assigned Budget 599.957,11 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Castilla y León; Galicia; Madrid, Comunidad de
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://viticast.monet-ti.com/
Description
VITICAST aims to provide innovative solutions (warning tools) for predicting fungal diseases in vineyards to optimize production and promote sustainable development of vine cultivation.
Objectives
- Determine the beginning of the different phenological phases in the selected study areas based on the grape variety
- Establish prediction models for the amount of fungal spores in the vineyard atmosphere required for infection to occur
- Develop specific algorithms for each Designation of Origin with the meteorological data recorded in the vineyards that allow identifying the opportune moments for possible attacks by phytopathogenic fungi
- Establish a warning station for possible phytopathogenic fungal infections in each of the Denominations of Origin studied.
- Optimizing the number of phytosanitary treatments in viticulture, which will result in reduced production costs, increased wine quality, and better environmental protection.
Results
- Obtaining phytoclimatic models of the evolution of the phenological phases for each plot under study and for each grape variety
- Creation of a general spore prediction model for each phytopathogen
- Establishment of infection thresholds for each of the fungi for the warning tool based on climatic, phenological and spore concentration conditions in the atmosphere.
- Fungal Disease Warning Tool
- Quantification of the improvement in wine quality by comparing multi-residue analyses carried out on the control plots and on the plots where phytosanitary treatments have been applied without taking into account the warnings issued by the tool proposed in this project.
Contact information
- Coordinator/entity name: Monet Technology and Innovation SL
- Coordinator/entity email: info@monet-ti.com
Collaborators
- Plataforma Tecnologica del Vino
- Asociación de Colleiteiros Embotelladores do Ribeiro
- Asociación Galega de Vitucultura
Beneficiaries
- Monet Tecnología e Innovación SL
- Viña Costeira Sociedad Cooperativa Galega
- Bodegas Hacienda Monasterio SL
- Fundación Empresa Universidad Gallega
- Diputacion de Pontevedra - Estacion Fitopatoloxica de Areeiro
- Universidad de Vigo
- Bodega Matarromera SL
Outsourced
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
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