plants Article Phenological Model to Predict Budbreak and Flowering Dates of Four Vitis vinifera L. Cultivars Cultivated in DO. Ribeiro (North-West Spain) Alba Piña-Rey 1 , Helena Ribeiro 2,3, María Fernández-González 1,* , Ilda Abreu 2,4 and F. Javier Rodríguez-Rajo 1,* 1 Sciences Faculty of Ourense, Campus da Auga, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain;
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[email protected] (F.J.R.-R.); Tel.: +34-988-387-193 (M.F.-G.) Abstract: The aim of this study was to assess the thermal requirements of the most important grapevine varieties in northwestern Spain to better understand the impact of climate change on their phenology. Different phenological models (GDD, GDD Triangular and UniFORC) were tested and validated to predict budburst and flowering dates of grapevines at the variety level using phenological observations collected from Treixadura, Godello, Loureira and Albariño between 2008 and 2019. The same modeling framework was assessed to obtain the most suitable model for this Citation: Piña-Rey, A.; Ribeiro, H.; region. The parametrization of the models was carried out with the Phenological Modeling Platform Fernández-González, M.; Abreu, I.; (PMP) platform by means of an iterative optimization process.