Professional paper

Interspecific hybrids of grape wine - basis of selection - work

David Gluhić ; Institut za poljoprivredu i turizam
Đani Karlić ; Veleučilište u Rijeci, Poljoprivredni odjel Poreč

Abstract

The beginning of selection-work in creating interspecific hybrids of grape wine started after the renewal of European vineyards from the attack of phylloxera in the middle of the 19th century. By using the American rootstocks (V. Rupestris, V. Riparia and V. Berlandieri) the problem of phylloxera was successfully solved, but fungal diseases like oidium and Plasmopara viticola weren’t successfully overcome. New hybrids of a good resistance to oidium and Plasmopara viticola appeared by hybridizing the European grape wine (Vitis vinifera) and different genera of the American or Asian grape wine. At the beginning, the term hybrid was started to be used, which had quite a negative undertone with most users, so with the increased quantity of furaneols, or the so called fox odor, the widespread of hybrids was limited.
By the development of genetics during the 20th century, a new rootstock for the selection of hybrids was created, so nowadays in most of the wine-growing regions in the world there are hybrids which are successfully used in wine-growing production. Cabernet Cortis, Ruby Cabernet, Domina, and the very famous hybrid Pinotage, are only some of potentially very interesting hybrids for the modern wine-growing production.

Keywords

hybrids of grape wine; resistance; wine-growing production

Hrčak ID:

163991

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/163991

Publication date:

19.12.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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