Abstract
Abstract Though the production of transgenic grapevines for commercial release is not conceivable for another ten or fifteen years, the current interest focused on public hostility against food products from genetically modified plants has led to a slowdown in research on grapevine transformation, at least in European grape-growing countries. The usefulness of transgenic grapevine cultivars is questioned, in spite of the benefits for health and environment that could be derived through the reduced use of chemical sprays to protect grapevines genetically modified for higher resistance to or tolerance of pathogens. However, grapevine transformation is a valuable tool to understand the genetics and mechanisms of plant growth, development and metabolism. Thus, the availability of improved and efficient techniques of transformation is needed to sustain the current development of grapevine genomics.
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