Sustainable Grape Productivity and the Growth-Yield Relationship: A Review
By G. S. Howell. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 2001
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Research reports and experimental efforts during the last century are presented with the goal to encourage discussion of balancing grapevine fruit yield and vine growth and leaf area. Fruit and subsequent processed quality are equally relevant economic issues as we strive to create conditions for both sustainable grapevine productivity and vine capacity for tolerating abiotic and biotic stress episodes. It is proposed that methods to achieve vine balance will vary with regard to macroclimate and cultivar, but will be most critical for those macroclimates commonly called cool-climate regions. Regardless, vine balance is most readily understood when based on the principles of vine carbon balance as mediated through well-understood factors such as cm2 leaf area/gram fresh weight of fruit at harvest and allmetric practices as the Ravaz Index and the Growth-Yield Relationship.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science
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- Grapevine quality: A multiple choice issue (2017, background): “Furthermore, full vineyard mechanization and quality are not seen as contrasting factors and preference, when possible, is given to short (spur) pruning (Howell, 2001).”
- Understanding and managing nitrogen nutrition in grapevine: a review (2021, background): “A balanced vine has the appropriate capacity for producing fully ripened grapes, while building nutrient reserves for the following year (Howell, 2001; Lakso and Sacks, 2009).”
- Water status, leaf area and fruit load influence on berry weight and sugar accumulation of cv. 'Tempranillo' under semiarid conditions (2006, background): “The effect of LA and BN on SC has been extensively reported (CandolfiVasconcellos and Koblet, 1990), and LA/YLD ratio is widely employed as an estimator of vineyard potential to ripen berries properly (Howell, 2001).”
- Biofungicides as alternative to synthetic fungicide control of grey mould (Botrytis cinerea) – prospects and challenges (2018, unknown): “…human health (Farquhar et al., 2009; Tripathi, Dubey, & Shukla, 2008); (2) increased resistance development in pathogen populations (Fan, Hamada, Li, Li, & Luo, 2017; Leroux, 2004; Rupp, Weber, Rieger, Detzel, & Hahn, 2017) and (3) environmental pollution (Elmer & Michailides, 2004; Howell, 2001).”