Heard it through the grapevine: proteomic perspective on grape and wine

Grapevine (Vitis ssp.) is currently considered as the most important fruit plant throughout the world, both due to its economic importance and to its role as a non climacteric model species. The relevance of the studies devoted to the dissection of grapevine biology and biochemistry underlines the great amount of attention that this plant has attracted over the last decade. The milestones among these studies are represented by the accomplishment of the genome sequencing programmes in 2007 [1,2]. Since then, the investigation of grape OMICS has been implemented, and the number of reports published on grape and wine protein investigations using proteomic techniques have significantly improved knowledge in the field.