AUTHOR=Pierro Roberto , Moussa Abdelhameed , Mori Nicola , Marcone Carmine , Quaglino Fabio , Romanazzi Gianfranco TITLE=Bois noir management in vineyard: a review on effective and promising control strategies JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=15 YEAR=2024 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1364241 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2024.1364241 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=

Among grapevine yellows, Bois noir (BN), associated with ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma solani’, represents the biggest threat in the main wine-growing areas worldwide, causing significant losses in berry quality and yields. BN epidemiology involves multiple plant hosts and several insect vectors, making considerably complex the development of effective management strategies. Since application of insecticides on the grapevine canopy is not effective to manage vectors, BN management includes an integrated approach based on treatments to the canopy to make the plant more resistant to the pathogen and/or inhibit the vector feeding, and actions on reservoir plants to reduce possibilities that the vector reaches the grapevine and transmit the phytoplasma. Innovative sustainable strategies developed in the last twenty years to improve the BN management are reviewed and discussed.