Articles
QUO VADIS, BRAZILIAN VITICULTURE? GLOBALIZATION AND THE LEGACY OF SANTOS NETO
Article number
872_57
Pages
401 – 406
Language
English
Abstract
Brazilian viticultural science has dismissed the legacy of J.R.A. Santos Neto, pioneer of a promising agroecological model for tropical viticulture in Brazil: onsite development of hybrid cultivars between classical Vitis vinifera selections and tropical to subtropical Vitis species native to the northern hemisphere latitude belt congruous with its southern hemisphere counterpart, the vast highland zone that girds central Brazil.
A revision of current viticultural development policy is called for that would recognize the critical importance of latitudinal daylength in breeding and selecting adapted cultivars.
Such native selections would have distinctive organoleptic attributes desirable in a global market that increasingly demands product diversity and organically sustainable agronomics.
A revision of current viticultural development policy is called for that would recognize the critical importance of latitudinal daylength in breeding and selecting adapted cultivars.
Such native selections would have distinctive organoleptic attributes desirable in a global market that increasingly demands product diversity and organically sustainable agronomics.
Authors
F. Watlington
Keywords
tropical hybrid grapes, Vitis breeding, daylength
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