Olivier Viret

This study analyzes long-term esca disease incidence in Western Switzerland from 2001 to 2022, identifying water balance as a key climatic driver and observing a slight decreasing trend linked to drier conditions.

The paper assesses Swiss grapevine cultivar susceptibility to flavescence doree by comparing lab and field data, finding that differences in disease incidence are due to vector performance, not intrinsic susceptibility.

The paper tests if specific fungal communities cause grapevine dieback disease using landscape-scale sampling and finds no such causal link.