Roubelakis-Angelakis K.A. (ed.) Grapevine Molecular Physiology & Biotechnology

Second Edition. — Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2009. — 610 p.
ISBN 978-90-481-2304-9.
e-ISBN 978-90-481-2305-6.Grapevine is one of the most widely cultivated plant species worldwide. With the publication of the grapevine genome sequence in 2007, a new horizon in grapevine research has unfolded. Thus, the authours felt that a new edition of ‘Molecular Biology & Biotechnology of the Grapevine’ could expand on all the latest scientific developments. In this edition and with the aid of 73 scientists from 15 countries, ten chapters describe new aspects of Grapevine Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology and eleven chapters have been revised and updated.
This book is intended to be a reference book for researchers, scientists and biotechnological companies, who want to be updated in viticultural research, but also it can be used as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate students, who are interested in the Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Plants with an emphasis on the Grapevine.Contents:
Grape bud dormancy release the molecular aspect (E. Or).
The growth cycle of grapevine.
The importance of dormancy release for commercial grape production.
The need for a mechanistic understanding of dormancy release.
The experimental systems used to study dormancy release of grape buds.
The use of molecular tools to study dormancy release of grape buds.
Concluding remarks.
Grapevine & sulfur: old partners, new achievements (S. Amâncio, S. Tavares, J.C. Fernandes & C. Sousa).Sulfate as the main sulfur source.
Sulfate assimilation.
Concluding remarks.
Grape berry mineral composition in relation to vine water status & leaf area/fruit ratio (F. Etchebarne, H. Ojeda & A. Deloire).Vine water status.
Source-sink relationships.
Berry growth and development.
Mineral nutrients.
Grape berry translocation of mineral nutrients.
Water transport & aquaporins in grapevine (S.D. Tyerman, R.K. Vandeleur, M.C. Shelden, J. Tilbrook, G. Mayo, M. Gilliham & B.N. Kaiser).Capacity of roots and shoots to transport water.
Water management and grape quality.
Berry water relations.
Aquaporins.Sugar transport & sugar sensing in grape (A. Agasse, C. Vignault, C. Kappel, C. Conde, H. Gerós & S. Delrot).Physiological basis of sugar accumulation.
Molecular biology of sugar transporters.
Sugar sensing and regulation of transporters.
Perspectives.
Alcohol dehydrogenase genes & proteins in grapevine (C. Tesniere & P. Abbal).Molecular characterization of ADH genes and proteins from grapevine.
Expression of ADH.
Regulation of ADH expression.
Importance of the ADH function in grapevine.Advancements in nitrogen metabolism in grapevine (K.A. Loulakakis, J.F. Morot-Gaudry, C.N. Velanis, D.S. Skopelitis, P.N. Moschou, B. Hirel & K.A. Roubelakis-Angelakis).Nitrogen use.
Regulation of ammonia assimilating enzymes by nitrogen source in grapevine.
Future perspectives.
Polyamines in grapevine: an update (K.A. Paschalidis, P.N. Moschou, A. Aziz, I. Toumi & K.A. Roubelakis-Angelakis).Polyamine titers during grapevine development.
Putrescine coincides with high photosynthetic efficiency.
Polyamine anabolism in grapevine.
Polyamine catabolism in grapevine.
Polyamines and osmotic stress.
Polyamine metabolism and resistance responses.
ABA alters polyamine metabolism.
Future perspectives.
Hormonal control of grape berry ripening (C. Davies & C. Böttcher).Promoters of ripening.
Inhibitors of ripening.
Interaction between hormones.
Concluding remarks.
Molecular biology of anthocyanin accumulation in grape berries (P.K. Boss & C. Davies).The molecular biology of anthocyanin accumulation in grape.
Concluding remarks.
The production of flavour & aroma compounds in grape berries (J.D. Dunlevy, C.M. Kalua, R.A. Keyzers & P.K. Boss).Terpenoids.
Norisoprenoids.
Aromatic compounds.
Aliphatic volatile compounds.
Organo-sulfur compounds.
Methoxypyrazines.
Concluding remarks.
Physiology & molecular biology of grapevine stilbenes: an update (L. Bavaresco, C. Fregoni, M.I. van Zeller de Macedo Basto Gonçalves & S. Vezzulli).Grapevine induced stilbenes (phytoalexins) and their biotic and abiotic elicitors.
Grapevine constitutive stilbenes.
Molecular and biotechnological aspects of stilbene synthesis in grapevines.
Biochemical & molecular aspects of flavan-3-ol synthesis during berry development (N. Terrier, D. Ollé, C. Verriès & V. Cheynier).Factors affecting flavan-3-ol composition in grapevine.
Molecular aspects of proanthocyanidin biosynthesis.
Biological activity of grapevine phenolic compounds (R. Amarowicz & S. Weidner).Antioxidant activity.
Protection from cardiovascular diseases.
Anticarcinogenic activity.
Antimicrobial activity.
Molecular aspects of grapevine-pathogenic fungi interactions (E. Gomès & P. Coutos-Thévenot).Main grapevine fungal or oomycete-induced diseases.
Grapevine resistance genes analogs.
Elicitors active on grapevine.
Early cellular events in defense reactions.
Grapevine PR-protein genes.
Grapevine phytoalexins biosynthesis and metabolism.Progress in grapevine protoplast technology (A.K. Papadakis, N. Fontes, H. Gerós & K.A. Roubelakis-Angelakis).Isolation, assessment of quality and culture of grapevine protoplasts.
Recalcitrance.
Applications of protoplast technology.
Conclusions and perspectives.
Strategies for effective somatic embryogenesis in grapevine: an appraisal (L. Martinelli & I. Gribaudo).Protocols for somatic embryogenesis and related aspects.
Conversion of somatic embryos into plantlets.
Advances in understanding and characterizing grape somatic embryogenesis.
Exploitation of somatic embryogenesis potential in genetics, breeding and sanitary improvement of grape.Recent trends in grapevine genetic engineering (G.M. Reustle & G. Büchholz).Improvement of transformation protocols.
State of-the-art of transgenic grapevines.
Results from field trials.
New applications of grapevine transformation.
Progress in genetic engineering of grapevine for disease & stress tolerance (V. Colova-Tsolova, A. Perl, S. Krastanova, S. Samuelian & A. Atanassov).Grape biodiversity.
Basic terms in genetics of host/pathogen interaction.
Advantages and limitations of genetic transformation.
Genetic transformation in grape for improved tolerance toward biotic and abiotic stress.
Co-transformation as an advanced approach for integration of multiple genes to confer for disease tolerance in grape.
Concluding remarks.
Molecular maps, QTL mapping and association mapping in grapevine (L. Costantini, F.M. Moreira, E. Zyprian, J.M. Martínez-Zapater & M.S. Grando).
Linkage mapping.
Target traits.
Mapping and tagging of major genes.
QTL mapping.
From QTLs to underlying genes.
Marker-assisted selection (MAS).
Association mapping in grapevine.
Microsatellite markers for grapevine: tools for cultivar identification and pedigree reconstruction (K.M. Sefc, I. Pejić, E. Maletić, M.R. Thomas & F. Lefort).Identification of cultivars of Vitis vinifera and rootstocks from Vitis species.
Synonyms.
Clonal lines, somatic mutants and chimerism.
Pedigree reconstruction.
Genetic studies of the origin and diversity of european cultivars.
Chloroplast SSR markers.
Genetic databases of SSR profiles.