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Water Stress and Grape Physiology in the Context of Global Climate Change*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2016

Gregory A. Gambetta
Gregory A. Gambetta*
Affiliation:
Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin (ISVV), 210 chemin de Leysotte CS 50008, 33882 Villenave d'Ornon, France; e-mail: gregory.gambetta@agro-bordeaux.fr.
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Abstract

Plant adaptation to global climate change has become one of the most pressing and important topics in biology. Changes in climate that lead to increased crop water use or decreases in water availability will increase the frequency and magnitude of plant water stress. Water stress reduces plant growth and crop yield, and for perennial crops like grape, there is an added consideration: their long-term ability to tolerate and recover from this stress. This primer introduces plant water relations basics, explaining how grape physiology is affected by water stress and discussing the physiological foundations for the development of drought-tolerant cultivars and rootstocks. (JEL Classifications: Q13, Q54)

Keywords

adaptationcrop productiondroughtirrigationresistancetolerance
Type
Articles
Information
Journal of Wine Economics , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , May 2016 , pp. 168 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © American Association of Wine Economists 2016 

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Footnotes

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The author thanks Thomas Rost (University of California, Davis) for providing the photos of grapevine anatomy, Craig Brodersen (Yale University) for the grapevine high-resolution computed tomography images, and Kenneth Shackel (University of California, Davis) and Karl Storchmann (New York University) for their critical reading of the manuscript.

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