The Terroir Concept Interpreted through Grape Berry Metabolomics and TranscriptomicsSilvia Dal Santo *1, Mauro Commisso *1, Erica D'Incà 1, Andrea Anesi 1,2, Matteo Stocchero 3, Sara Zenoni 1, Stefania Ceoldo 1, Giovanni B. Tornielli 1, Mario Pezzotti 1, Flavia Guzzo 1
1Biotechnology Department, University of Verona, 2Lab. of Bioorganic Chemistry, Physics Department, University of Trento, 3S-IN Soluzioni Informatiche
This article describes the application of untargeted metabolomics, transcriptomics and multivariate statistical analysis to grape berry transcripts and metabolites in order to gain insight into the terroir concept, i.e., the impact of the environment on berry quality traits.