Workshop: Alterações climáticas em Viticultura

Workshop: Alterações climáticas em Viticultura

- Grapevine varieties for a sustainable viticulture;

- Carbon footprint in the vineyard;

- Water footprint in the vineyard;

- Economic and social sustainability in Viticulture;

- Sustainable Viticulture and Mechanization

- Sustainable viticulture practices, berry composition and wine quality

- Organic Viticulture;

- Biodynamic Viticulture;

-Sustainability in Tropical Viticulture

- Ecological Services of Biodiversity in Viticultural Landscapes

- Sustainable vineyard soil management,

- Sustainable vineyard spraying

- Canopy management practices to improve vineyard sustainability;

-Sustainable water use in viticulture (Miguel Costa)

- What can arbuscular mycorrhiza do for us in sustainable viticulture? (Amaia Nogales)

- Organic Viticulture – A case study (Graça Gonçalves)

– Discussion

- Introduction to Sustainable Viticulture and main ways to promote sustainability in Viticulture (C. Lopes)

- Pesticide Use and Ecological Risk Assessment (Mª José Cerejeira)

- Low Carbon wine – a case study in Alentejo (C.Lopes)

- Metrics to calculate carbon footprint in wine (B. Caldeira)

- Sustainable use of pesticides in a plant protection company, a real example – INTERRA Project (Monica Teixeira)

-Methods for transcriptomic analysis. Examples in grapevine (Luisa Carvalho);

- Gene expression in grape berry cell wall under abiotic stress (Sara Amâncio)

-  Genetics, evolution and genomics of  Vitis flowering (Margarida Rocheta)

- Discussion

- Introduction (Sara Amancio)

- Plant genome organization; introduction to bioinformatics; control of gene expression; epigenetics (Leonor Morais

- Using Molecular Biology tools to identify grapevine varieties (JE Eiras Dias)

- Using X-ray tomography in the treatment of grapevine wood diseases(R. Ferreira)

Study Trip to the Bairrada, Vinhos Verdes, Douro & Dão wine growing regions during 3 days - 23 to 25 November 2015

Case studies analysis and presentation.

How writen a paper or a thesis. Roles for literature review and paper format.

2.4. Yield control by viticultural practices.

2.4. 1. pruning level;

2.4.2.  shoot thinning;

2.4.3. shoot tipping or hedging during flowering;

2.4.4. early leaf removal;

2.4.5. spraying growth regulators;

2.4.6. inflorescence thinning;

2.4.7. berry thinning;

2.4.8. cluster thinning.

2.1. Introduction

2.2.1. Yield variability and it’s causes 

2.2.2. Advantages of Yield forecast

2.2. Yield components and the period in which they are determined. Factors affecting yield components

2.3. Main techniques for Yield forecasting

2.3.1. Aeropalynological forecast models;

2.3.2. Estimation of yield components;

2.3.3. Agrometeorological models;

2.3.4. Remote sensing;

2.3.5. Measuring trellis tension;

2.3.6.  Image Analysis

- Thermal imaging as a tool to monitor the impact of climate change on modern viticulture (Miguel Costa)

- Climate Change & Viticulture: Adaptation measures (C. Lopes)

- Discussion

- Uncertainty in Agriculture (Pedro Aguiar)

- The use of models to study climate change impacts on agriculture (Pedro Aguiar)

 - Climate Change & Viticulture: Introduction and main impacts on Viticulture (C. Lopes)

 Evaluation of climate change impacts on the viticulture using new climate indices (Ricardo Egipto)

– Evaluation of climate change impacts on viticulture using simulation models (Ricardo Braga)

- Enquadramento

- Variabilidade

- GPS e georreferenciação

- Sensores e Cartas de produtividade

- Detecção remota e Cartas de NDVI

- Casos de estudo 

- Segmentação da vindima

- Aplicação diferenciada

- Decisão baseado em factos

I.6- Mechanical harvest

I.7- Mechanical pruning

I.2- Mechanization of plantation

I.3- Mechanization of fertilization and soil management

I.4- Mechanization of canopy management

- Roles for Practical written report. 

- Main topics and methodologies

Introduction to Advanced Viticulture 

I. Vineyard mechanization 

1.1 Introduction

1.5. Vineyard spraying equipment

Main sprayer calibrations. Field demonstration of a sprayer calibration