VINEPROTECT - Work Packages
Main objective: increase local vineyard resilience to both climate change (drought) and diseases, towards reducing the use of agrochemicals and boosting local circular agriculture.
WP1 - Harness local rhizosphere biodiversity to increase vineyards resilience to climate change.
Objectives
•Gain knowledge of genetic biodiversity of the rhizosphere
•Reduce soil water-loss, soil-heating, enrich soil nutrition, and rhizosphere biodiversity through vegetative cover implementation (Clovers)
•Establish collections of PGPs and BCAs
WP2 - Local Plant Growth Promoter Bacteria to improve vineyards fertilization and resistance to drought.
Objectives
•Search for PGP (improving nutrition availability and plants’ drought resistance)
•Characterize them (metabolomics)
•Upscale the process
WP3 - Local Trichoderma and derived formulations to improve disease resilience in vineyards.
Objectives
•Search for Trichoderma to act against mildew diseases
•Characterize them (metabolomics)
•Compare efficiency with current agrochemicals
•Upscale the process
WP4 - Biobased hydrogels from waste plant material as water retainer and nutrient supplier.
Objectives
•Increase vineyards’ soil water retention with bio-hydrogels (vines’ pruning waste).
•Transference of this technology to other terroirs and achieve, in a medium-longer term, the local production of these bio-hydrogels (circular-viticulture).
WP5 - Performance of Vineyards subjected to biological approaches aiming at grapevine protection and valorization in the Mediterranean region.
Objectives
•Establish the best vineyard management practice (N-fixing plants, PGPs or bio-hydrogels) to improve vineyard’s resilience to drought.
WP6 - Socio-economic impacts of the operational-tool box on wine-chain value facing the climate changes.
Objectives
•Get knowledge at: (1) socio-economic situation of the stakeholders;(2) practices used by growers; (3) awareness of the environmental and socio-economic advantages of clovers, PGP, BCA and bio-hydrogels.
•Impact and socio-economic benefits of the proposed solutions.
WP7 - Structure, Management and Communication.
Objectives
•Ensure coordination of the activities, human and financial resources.
•Optimize integration between activities.
•Ensure the timely and appropriate reporting.
•Ensure quality and time management.
