PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Fernando Martínez De Toda
AU  - Juan Carlos Sancha
TI  - Characterization of Wild Vines in La Rioja (Spain)
AID  - 10.5344/ajev.1999.50.4.443
DP  - 1999 Jan 01
TA  - American Journal of Enology and Viticulture
PG  - 443--446
VI  - 50
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ajevonline.org/content/50/4/443.short
4100  - http://www.ajevonline.org/content/50/4/443.full
SO  - Am J Enol Vitic.1999 Jan 01; 50
AB  - The largest population of wild vines located to date in La Rioja is studied, with the following objectives: (1) application of the criteria proposed by Levadoux for the characterization of material: foliar and seed morphology and the sex of the individual plants; and (2) determination of the wild vine types to which they belong: post cultivated, sub-spontaneous or spontaneous, and within this last group, whether they are colonials, autochthonous, or hybrids. Although the population shows a marked sylvestris character, it cannot be concluded that it is purely autochthonous, and should be considered as spontaneous and of hybrid type — that is, the result of the hybridization of autochthonous wild vines with other post-cultivated or subspontaneous forms.