Universidad de La Rioja - Unirioja

Breeding and integrated pest management strategies to reduce reliance on chemical pesticides

https://shield4grape.eu/ Shield4Grape (S4G) introduces safer and more sustainable approaches against fungal/oomycete pathogens in combination with new grapevine resilient genotypes. S4G will contribute concretely to safeguard of the territory, particularly of the areas with a high concentration of vineyards, the human health, the farmers, the population living in grape-growing areas and the consumers. S4G will take advantage of the combination of new knowledge acquired from pathology, genetic and genomics, along with innovative IPM and breeding processes. The overall objective of Shield4Grape is to implement sustainable agroecological approaches contributing to the improvement of resilience of the grapevine agri-food systems against pest diseases in a context of climatic changes.