AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Department of 
Faculty of Crop Science

Advanced Viticulture

Content

i. Grapevine reproduction Introduction – Differentiation of latent buds – Time of differentiation – Grapevine bud fertility – Factors that affect the differentiation of latent buds – Dormancy of grapevine latent buds – Flowering – Pollination – Fruit set – Growth and maturation of the berries – Growth stages and maturation of the berries – Factors that affect the growth and maturation of the berries. ii. Grapevine propagation Introduction-Asexual propagation – Propagation with cuttings – Rhizogenesis in grapevine cuttings – Factors that affect the creation of random roots – Propagation with grafting – Callogenesis – Procedure and mechanism of grafting – Factors that affect the success of the grafting – Interactions between scion and rootstock – Methods and techniques of grafting – Tissue culture – Production of propagation material of grapevine – Grapevine nurseries – Grapevine sexual propagation iii. Viticultural techniques Introduction – Summer pruning (shoot thinning – shoot trimming – leaf removal – cluster thinning - use of Phyto-regulatory substances) iv. Ampelography Introduction – Methodology and Code of Ampelographic description – Ampelographic characters – Taxonomy of the Vitaceae family – Grapevine rootstocks (properties and selection criteria of rootstocks – The most significant rootstocks of the Greek vineyard – Grapevine varieties of the Greek vineyard (quality characters and aptitudes of wine grape cultivated varieties – table grape varieties and varieties of special use – The most important Greek and foreign varieties of the Greek vineyard (Origin – ampelographic characters and phenological stages – Aptitudes and cultivation suitability – Clonal selection

Learning results

The objective of the course is to introduce students in the reproduction, propagation and cultivation (viticultural) techniques of the grapevine, as well as in ampelography.The course aims to introduce students in the methodology used both in the propagation, in the viticultural techniques as well as in the identification of grapevine varieties, rootstocks and their cultivation suitability, for the proper management of a modern productive vineyard.

Upon the successful completion of the course (theory and laboratory part of the course), students will have (Descriptive indicators for Levels 6 of the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning):

  • Understood the differentiation and fertility of grapevine buds
  • Understood the pollination, fruit setting, development and maturation of the berries
  • Understood the asexual propagation with cuttings and graft
  • Understood the effect of canopy management (summer pruning) in the viticultural practice 
  • Understood the properties and selection criteria of rootstocks, the properties, quality characters and cultivation suitability of grape cultivars.

The course is offered to the students of:

  • 6th semester of the Department of Crop Science (compulsory)
  • 4th semester of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition (optional)

Bibliography

Viticulture 2019. Μ.Ν.Stavrakakis. Embryo Publications. Ampelography 2021. Μ.Ν.Stavrakakis. Embryo Publications.

Faculty

(+30) 210 5294632
kbiniari@aua.gr
Associate Professor of Viticulture and Head of the Laboratory of Viticulture of the Department […]
(+30) 210 5294636
desph@aua.gr
Special, administrative, technical and teaching staff of the Laboratory of Viticulture, Department of Crop […]
(+30) 210 5294631
maritina@aua.gr
Assistant Professor of Viticulture, of the Department of Crop Science of the Agricultural University […]

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The Faculty of Crop Science of the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), was founded in June 1989 (Official Journal of the Hellenic Republic Νο. 166Α΄/16-6-1989) it is the first University Faculty of Crop Science founded in Greece
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