Coordinator: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza
Scientific Officer: Ilaria Filippetti
Duration: 08/10/2023 - 08/10/2025
Research group: Ilaria Filippetti, Gianluca Allegro, Chiara Pastore.
UNDER-VINE project aims to identify new successful vineyard soil management approaches to prevent negative effects of climate change based on the sow of cover crops to be grown during winter months and the use of their biomass to prevent water loss and occurrence of summer stress. Objective of the project is to find innovative soil management techniques capable of: i) Preserving soil from degradation process during wet season; ii) Tuning competition between vines and vineyard floor vegetation; iii) Reducing incidence of water stress during summer months; iv) Improving vineyard sustainability. The project includes two experimental vineyards in non-irrigated hilly steep-slope and in irrigated high yielding vineyards.