“…Botrytis cinerea is a necrotrophic pathogenic fungus that infects hundreds of plant species (Alfonso et al, 2000;Ma and Michailides, 2005;Williamson et al, 2007;Fillinger, 2016) including economically important crops such as fruits, ornamentals, and vegetables (Elad et al, 2004;Leroux, 2007). B. cinerea causes gray mold, a major worldwide destructive disease that results in significant yield loss of grapevines in the field and postharvest (Campia et al, 2017;Rupp et al, 2017b;Saito et al, 2019;Alzohairy et al, 2020). B. cinerea infects all grapevine plant parts, though fruit rot, known as botrytis bunch rot (preharvest) and gray mold (postharvest), is the most common (Gabler et al, 2003;Elmer and Michailides, 2007;Saito et al, 2019).…”