Jose Carlos Herrera
Institute of Viticulture and Pomology
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
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PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Jose Carlos Herrera Address: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences,Department of Crop Sciences, Institute of Viticulture and Pomology. Konrad Lorenz Str. 24, A-3430 Tulln, Austria Email: jose.herrera@boku.ac.at Nationality: Peruvian / Italian Date of birth: 19/07/1981 Gender: Male ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jose_Herrera25 Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9532-5809 EXPERIENCE Assistant professor | 2016 – current University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Department of Crop Sciences, Institute of Viticulture and Pomology (Vienna, Austria) Post-doc Fellowship | 2014 - 2016 University of Udine, Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences (Udine, Italy) Post-doc Fellowship | 2013 - 2014 University of Padova, Interdepartmental Centre for Research in Viticulture and Enology (Padova, Italy) Post-doc Fellowship | 2009 – 2010 University of Teramo, Food Science department (Teramo, Italy) EDUCATION PhD Degree | 2006 - 2010 Food Science department, University of Teramo (Italy) Degree in Food Science Engineering | 1999- 2004 Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Lima, Perú) MAIN RESEARCH AREAS & MOST IMPORTANT RESULTS Main research areas: Grapevine stress physiology, water relations and irrigation management, canopy management, and general viticulture. Most important results includes the contribution for a better understanding of the grapevine hydraulic strategies and acclimation to drought conditions, the grapevine leaf and berry metabolic adjustment following water stress, and the application of canopy management strategies to face climate change-related issues (spring frost, accelerated ripening, etc). ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS (10 most important) Savi T., Garcia-Gonzales A., Herrera J.C., Forneck A. (2019) Gas exchange, biomass and non-structural carbohydrates dynamics in vines under combined drought and biotic stress. BMC Plant Biology (accepted) Degu A., Hochberg U., Wong D.C., Alberti G., Lazarovitch N., Peterlunger E., Castellarin S.D., Herrera J.C., Fait A. (2019). Swift metabolite changes and leaf shedding are milestones in the acclimation process of grapevine under prolonged water stress. BMC plant biology, 19(1), 69. DOI: 10.1186/s12870-019-1652-y Rustioni L., Ciacciulli A., Zulini L., Zuliani E., Sivilotti P., Herrera J.C. (2017). Starch quantification in woody tissues by reflectance spectroscopy and on-solid iodine complexation. Scientia horticulturae, 226, 117-121. DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2017.08.036 Herrera J.C., Hochberg U., Degu A., Sabbatini P., Lazarovitch N., Castellarin S.D., Fait A., Alberti G., Peterlunger E. (2017). Grape Metabolic Response to Postveraison Water Deficit is Affected by Interseason Weather Variability. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 65(29): 5868-5878. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b01466 Hochberg U., Bonel A.G., David-Schwartz R., Degu A., Fait A., Cochard H., Peterlunger E., Herrera J.C. (2017) Grapevine acclimation to water deficit: the adjustment of stomatal and hydraulic conductance differs from petiole embolism vulnerability. Planta 245(6):1091-1104. DOI: 10.1007/s00425-017-2662-3. Hochberg U., Herrera J.C., Degu A., Castellarin S.D., Peterlunger E., Alberti G., Lazarovitch N. (2017) Evaporative demand determines the relative transpirational sensitivity of deficit irrigated grapevines. Irrigation Science 35(1), pp 1–9. DOI: 10.1007/s00271-016-0518-4. Sivilotti P., Herrera J.C., Lisjak K., Baša Česnik H., Sabbatini P., Peterlunger E., Castellarin S.D. (2016). Impact of leaf removal, applied before and after flowering, on anthocyanin, tannin, and methoxypyrazine concentrations in ‘Merlot’ (Vitis vinifera L.) grapes and wines. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 64 (22), pp 4487–4496. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.6b01013. Herrera J.C., Castellarin S.D. (2016) Preveraison Water Deficit Accelerates Berry Color Change in Merlot Grapevines. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture 67 (3), pp 356-360. DOI: ajev.2016.15083. Hochberg U., Herrera J.C., Cochard H., Badel, E. (2016) Short-time xylem relaxation results in reliable quantification of embolism in grapevine petioles and sheds new light on their hydraulic strategy. Tree Physiology 36 (6), pp 748-755. DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpv145. Herrera J.C., Bucchetti B., Sabbatini P., Comuzzo P., Zulini L., Vecchione A., Peterlunger E. Castellarin S.D. (2015) Effect of water deficit and severe shoot trimming on the composition of Vitis vinifera L. Merlot grapes and wines. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research 21 (2), pp 254-265. DOI: 10.1111/ajgw.12143 ADDITIONAL RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS 1. Awards: (2018) Josef Pleil Preis der Österreichischen Hagelversicherung