Grapevine trunk diseases. A review

Grapevine trunk diseases (GTD) are currently considered one of the most relevant challenges for the viticulture. These destructive diseases cause in vineyards several damages every year, and they are of rapidly growing concern in all wine producing countries. In 2006, the OIV established a resolution about some principal measures used to prevent or limit the proliferation of wood diseases (resolution OIVVITI 2/2006), and minor references in CST 1/2008 and CST2/2011 OIV resolutions. Recently, a new initiative has arisen inside the OIV group "vine protection and viticultural technics (PROTEC)"concerning to the development and impact of main trunk diseases, and their different alternatives to control or mitigation of their spread and damage at an international level of the cultivated Vitis species