My main research activities in viticulture include vine
training systems and related physiology, management techniques
(cluster thinning, leaf removal and trimming during ripening
) to improve grape quality and cluster morphology and studied in
association with molecular approach, vine mechanical
pruning and harvesting, grape phenology, grapevine breeding and
clonal selection, bioclimatic indices and cultivation-site
selection, canopy architecture and related solar energy
interception, cultivar and clonal identification
through ampelography, ampelometrics and molecular biology
techniques. Recently researches to study the effects and grapevine adaptation strategies to climate changes has been developed. These and other
research interests are to be found in more than 100 technical and
scientific papers.
