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Sustainable viticulture: the end of intensive vine monoculture

The massive use of phytosanitary products (herbicides, insecticides, fungicides) not only affects their effectiveness due to resistance phenomena, but is also associated with undesirable effects on the environment and health. These undesirable effects are now increasingly sanctioned by consumers when making their choices.

Consequently, other viticulture systems must be imagined to build a more sustainable viticultural model.

Original biocontrol treatments with optimized formulation in the viticulture of tomorrow

On the curative level, in sustainable viticulture, chemical solutions such as insecticides and/or fungicides must be replaced by biocontrol solutions.

Biocontrol solutions use natural mechanisms within the framework of integrated pest management (article L. 253-6 of the French rural and maritime fishing code).

This strategy implies looking for products with modes of action based for example on the activation/depression of vine defenses (elicitors), the disruption of pathogen reproduction (sex pheromones),… Particular emphasis is placed on solutions targeting the critical phases of the life cycle of pathogens. For example, in the case of fungal diseases such as grapevine downy mildew, there is a strong interest in preventing the development of oospores (a form of conservation in the soil and dispersion of the pathogen).