What you will read in issue 8-9/2021 of the magazine “Plant Protection”

The September 2021 issue of the journal "Plant Protection" has been published.

In the feature topic of the issue we present the Institute of Viticulture and Enology in Pleven, which was established in 1902 as a State Experimental Station for Viticulture and Enology in connection with the phylloxera crisis and the mass destruction of vineyards in Bulgaria. Initially created out of the necessity to save viticulture in our country, the station gradually succeeded in establishing Bulgarian viticulture at a European level through the introduction of the then unknown technology for the production of grapevine planting material.

In its 120-year history, the Institute of Viticulture and Enology – Pleven has gone through various stages of development, but throughout its long journey over time it has always been the center of research work in viticulture and enology in the country. In this issue you can read the entire history of the Institute and follow its development chronologically, as well as learn what the researchers there focus their work processes on.

- The Institute of Viticulture and Enology in Pleven is a national institution, part of Bulgarian agricultural science, which continues to operate in a systematically underfunded environment

- Department “Technologies and Plant Protection”

- Phytosanitary diagnostics and control of economically important grapevine pests

- Innovative marketing solutions for the prospective development of the viticulture and wine-making sector

- Optimisation of certain elements of the technology for the production of grapevine planting material

- Department “Breeding, Enology and Chemistry”

- Preservation of genetic resources – a key factor for the sustainable development of grapevine

- We preserve traditions, we work for the future

- Study of the content of trans-resveratrol in grapes and wine from the varieties Storgozia, Kaylashki Rubin, Trashezitsa, Rubin, Bouquet and Pinot Noir

Pears

Susceptibility of pear cultivars to the bacterial disease fire blight

School for Specialists

Bacterial diseases in insects

Traffic Light

Plant protection problems do not end

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