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I.B. Dry<br />

Recent progress in underst<strong>and</strong>ing the genetics of pest <strong>and</strong> disease resistance in Vitis<br />

CSIRO Plant Industry, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, South Australia, Australia<br />

Corresponding author: ian.dry@csiro.au<br />

Grapevines are highly susceptible to a wide range of pests <strong>and</strong> microbial pathogens including<br />

insects, nematodes, fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, phytoplasmas, viruses <strong>and</strong> viroids. Historically,<br />

grape growers have relied heavily on the use of pesticides <strong>and</strong> fungicides, in combination <strong>with</strong><br />

various management techniques, to minimise the impact of these pathogens. There is, however,<br />

increasing financial, regulatory <strong>and</strong> market pressure on grape growers to minimize the<br />

application of agrochemicals in the vineyard. An example of this is the recent proposal by the<br />

European Commission to ban the use by 2013 of a large number of agrochemicals in Europe<br />

which are routinely used for the control of grapevine fungal diseases. In the face of these<br />

increasing pressures, the development of new grapevine cultivars <strong>with</strong> improved “natural”<br />

genetic resistance to pathogens is a high priority. This review will summarize our current<br />

underst<strong>and</strong>ing of the genetic basis of resistance to plant pathogens <strong>and</strong> outline a number of<br />

different molecular strategies currently being used to develop pathogen resistant grapevine<br />

germplasm either by genetic transformation or marker-assisted breeding. This includes not only<br />

the mapping <strong>and</strong> cloning of dominant resistance genes from wild grapevine species but also the<br />

potential application of strategies which target “susceptibility” genes which predispose plants to<br />

infection by certain pathogens.<br />

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