Séminaire, le 16 octobre 2019

José Ramón Úrbez-Torres (invité par Chloé Delmas, UMR SAVE) présentera une conférence sur le sujet :

Managing emerging diseases in a young and developing grape-growing region

José Ramón Úrbez-Torres est chercheur au Centre de Recherche en Agriculture et Agroalimentaire de Summerland et professeur associé au département de Biologie du campus Okanagan, Université de la Colombie-Britannique, Canada

Abstract

Grape-producing countries benefit tremendously from the major economic boost that grape and wine industries provide independent from their size. A clear example is British Columbia (BC), where with just over 5,000 ha of cultivated grapevines (0.07% of the world total), the grape and wine industry contributes $2.2 billion dollars to BC’s economy through sales, tourism, and job creation. Though grapes have been cultivated in BC since 1860, it was not until mid-1990s when the industry started booming. Currently, BC is home of 275 wineries producing internationally acclaimed award-winning wines thanks to its distinctive geology, topography and microclimates. However, with success also comes challenges.

Two major emerging diseases, including grapevine trunk diseases and grapevine virus diseases are currently threatening the future’s economic sustainability of the sector in BC, solely focused on producing high quality wines. The aim of this seminar is to present the research that the Plant Pathology team at the Summerland Research and Developing Centre is conducting in collaboration with other research groups and industry members to better understand these diseases under BC’s particular environmental conditions. This seminar will focus on the different studies recently conducted on grapevine trunk diseases, grapevine leafroll disease and the newly discovered grapevine red blotch disease, which are the foundation for the development and implementation of effective management strategies in BC.