UNDER-VINE
New approaches to soil management for the improvement of vineyard resilience to climate change pressures
Coordinatore di progetto: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza
Ambiti di ricerca: Arboricoltura
Responsabile Scientifico: Ilaria Filippetti
Durata: 08/10/2023 - 08/10/2025
Gruppo di ricerca: 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.