Grape selection for resistance to biotic and abiotic environmental factors
Journal: Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (Julius Kühn-Institut)
Year: 2015

Most of the viticultural regions of the USSR are located under conditions of limiting biotic and abiotic factors, with frosts, drought, fungal diseases, phylloxera, mites, grape berry moths and some others being of primary importance. The main breeding organizations have been creating for more than 40 years new table and wine cultivars with complex resistance according to long-term programs. These cultivars are own-rooted and capable of wintering in outdoor culture with a limited amount of spray