Home Tessior® System There's a serious threat to your vineyard out there. GTD can infect vines directly after pruning!

There's a serious threat to your vineyard out there. GTD can infect vines directly after pruning!

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Many challenges keep wine growers awake at night, but long-term none is more threatening and difficult to resolve than Grapevine Trunk Diseases (GTDs). The spores released by GTD pathogens infect fresh pruning wounds. It is a problem that can drastically damage the whole vineyard and cause unpredictably high additional costs and financial losses. Therefore, it is important to protect the wounds as soon as possible after pruning with Tessior® System.

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Winegrowers major challenges with regards to GTD

  • High costs, turnover losses of vineyard value (heritage) due to GTD infections.
  • Strong increase of grape trunk disease overall Europe since many years and further increasing pressure in future.
  • No effective solution available in the market so far. Currently replanting & cutback of infected wines is the only solution.
  • Grape trunk diseases start to be perceived as the main problem for the future.

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Typical Grape Trunk Disease symptoms several years after first infection.

GTDs - what are they?

Grape trunk diseases (GTDs) are caused by different fungi that can infect the wood of grapevine after wounding of the shoots or trunk. Here are examples of important GTDs that attack grapes in Europe.