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Grape Rootstock Breeding and Their Performance Based on the Wolpert Trials in California

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The Grape Genome

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Pest and disease pressures have traditionally driven the use of grapevine rootstocks. However, with competing demands on limited water resources and changing climate conditions, the water available for agriculture will likely continue to diminish. This inevitability has resulted in an increased interest in grape rootstock effects on scion growth, specifically yield components, as a function of parentage and in terms of drought tolerance. It has also spurred efforts to breed new rootstocks with combined pest, disease, and abiotic stress resistance. Field studies examining rootstock effect on scion growth and development have been inconsistent due to complications associated with varying soil types and weather factors unique to each site. Other factors tend to vary from site to site including trellising systems, scion cultivar selection and management practices, each of which also has a role in determining vine phenology. Due to these issues, rootstock trial data is often presented on a site-by-site basis with the objective of determining if a specific rootstock tends to yield more or less than other rootstocks on a given site. Although inherently limited by the aforementioned challenges, rootstock trails are arguably one of the best methods of providing insight into rootstock performance and scion interactions. The Wolpert rootstock trails in California were one of the more comprehensive efforts to understand and classify rootstock performance as a function of site. General trends in performance were observed as a function of rootstock selection with regard to yield and pruning weights.

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  1. Wine and Viticulture, California Polytechnic State University, One Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

    Jean Catherine Dodson Peterson

  2. Cooperative Extension, University of California, Oakland, CA, USA

    Roger Duncan, Donna Hirschfelt, Chuck Ingels, Glenn McGourty, Rhonda Smith & Ed Weber

  3. Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    James Wolpert, Michael Anderson, Jason Benz & M. Andrew Walker

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Dodson Peterson, J.C. et al. (2019). Grape Rootstock Breeding and Their Performance Based on the Wolpert Trials in California. In: Cantu, D., Walker, M. (eds) The Grape Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18601-2_14

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