CONTEXT Research has demonstrated that relationships exist between berry compositional changes during ripening and seasonal vine water deficit variations (here). The purpose of this blog is …
Effect of Sap Flow Profile on Berry Sugar Accumulation
Should I Spray Nitrogen Early Season?
CONTEXT During a dry winter, soil nitrogen mineralization rate can be reduced. As a consequence, once the season starts and even if soil moisture is …
Managing vine water deficit with canopy height
CONTEXT Regardless of irrigation regime, canopy size can affect yield and berry quality attributes particularly under semiarid conditions. It may sound counterintuitive at first …
Multiplex Mapping : How to Use Your Two Color Map?
Why Use the Two Color Map? Multiplex two color mapping is useful to support the following question around picking decision timing: “Can I source enough fruit from a uniformly …
Multiplex Signature: How to Read the Time Profile?
Multiplex Signature Multiplex Signature provides useful insight to answer the following questions around the timing of picking decisions: Does it make sense to harvest earlier …
What is Multiplex Map?
Why Use Multiplex Map? Multiplex Map is useful to support the following decisions: How to refine harvest zone; How to highlight differences within your vineyard …
What is Multiplex Signature and How to use it?
What is Multiplex Signature? Multiplex Signature collects data on the same plants over multiple dates to reveal the speed of color accumulation. The measurements are …
The Multiplex Sensor: Description
Made in France by Fruition Sciences’ partner Force-A, the multiplex sensor is a non-destructive hand-held sensor that uses light to excite specific molecules within the …
Linking vine water deficit with wine color density
CONTEXT An australian researcher team led by Cooley have compared different levels of water deficit severity to analyze their effect on berry and wine composition …
Can early defoliation improve fruit and wine quality from high yielding vines?
Introduction Vines with too much yield are often maturing too slowly or producing a fruit of suboptimal quality for wine. A typical practice to reduce yield …