Development of an environmental sustainable cultivation model, improving the spread of old vineyard varieties, within Colli Bolognesi area

The expected results will involve vineyard agroecosystem and the old varieties cultivation, and in particular: the evaluation of the effectiveness of elicitors to enhance the resistence to pathogens and insect functional biodiversity; the role of elicitors on gene expression; the development of a cultivation technique based on induced resistence, in order to reduce the copper use; the soil biodiversity monitoring and conservation; evaluation of the quality of old varieties in the investigated rural area; evaluation of the susceptibility of old varieties to the main insect pests (including native and exotic) and diseases; the potential of ecological focus area on conservation and enhancement of beneficial insects; development of avineyard cultivation method which improve the spread of old regional varieties. The project plan ha the objective to develop a vineyard cultivation model in order to reach anoptimization between production and environmental conservation. This innovative model will lead benefits mainly to the growers belonging to the Operative Group, which will be able to receive the technical tools for vineyard cultivation within both organic and integrated management.