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Climate change cannot currently be ignored and impacts all fields of agriculture. IPCC reports forecast an increase of up to 700 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration at the end of the 21st century. Parameters such as elevated global temperature, reduced precipitations in certain areas of the world and increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration are modifying plants’ environment. Grapevine, which is a crop of economic and cultural importance, is very sensitive to climate modifications. The effects of temperature or water stress on grapevine has been widely investigated, and elevated carbon dioxide has been mainly studied in enclosed systems such as greenhouses. However, the impact of increased concentration of carbon dioxide on plants in open-field experiments remains scarcely studied because of the technical challenge that it represents. In this context, the aim of this PhD work was to investigate the impact of elevated carbon dioxide concentration using the set-up VineyardFACE located at Geisenheim University. This open field set-up enables to apply a moderate and gradual increase (+20%) of ambient carbon dioxide concentration on two grapevine cultivars, Riesling, and Cabernet Sauvignon. While knowing the impact of elevated carbon dioxide treatment on leaf physiology and vegetative growth from previous studies (Wohlfahrt et al., 2018), as well as on berry composition during the early years of fumigation, the goal of this study was to determine the effects of elevated carbon dioxide treatment on agronomical traits, primary metabolites (sugars, organic acids, amino acids) and secondary metabolites (anthocyanins, terpenes) on vines undergoing six years of fumigation, as well as monitoring berry development and following berry ripening for successive seasons. Intermediates from central metabolism were also studied for two years (2020 and 2021), and terpene analysis was realized on Riesling must 2021.
Our results showed that although photosynthesis was still enhanced, little effects were found of elevated carbon dioxide treatment on primary metabolites as well as on berry ripening rates, for successive seasons for both Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon. However, a trend of reduced total anthocyanins concentration in Cabernet Sauvignon was demonstrated by elevated carbon dioxide treatment mainly in 2020, while anthocyanins composition remained fairly similar. Terpenes (both bound and free) composition in Riesling in 2021 was not impacted by elevated carbon dioxide treatment.