Montenegro has a long winemaking tradition dated back to Greek and Illyrian period times. Current Montenegrin wine-growing regions have evolved following globalization rules to fit international market needs. Nevertheless, this modern system co-exists with another Montenegrin viticulture that still maintains most of its traditional practices, including the cultivation of autochthonous cultivars. This traditional way is particularly important in Montenegro’s viticulture because of the significant number of small grape growers that keep it alive, converting this region in an invaluable opportunity to study traditional ways to produce new varieties and genetic diversity which are currently extinct in Western European countries. Here, we performed the widest prospection of grapevine genetic resources carried out in Montenegro so far, which involved the collection of 419 grapevine leaf samples from old vines found in traditional vineyards across the different viticulture regions of the country

Resumen del trabajo presentado en el 2nd Meeting COST Action CA17111-INTEGRAPE: Multi-omics data integration for genotypephenotype association, celebrado en Ljubljana (Eslovenia), del 3 al 5 de marzo de 2020