Many growers delay pruning in an attempt to delay ripening to mitigate harvest compression associated with a warming climate. Elevated temperatures can affect berry composition and wine sensory characteristics. In this project, researchers evaluated the interaction...
BACKGROUND AND AIM: The effects of fully mechanized pruning systems on physiology, vigour and yield of grapevines have been studied for more than forty years and are an interesting way to reduce production costs. Organic amending of vineyard soil is a way to...
The aim of this study was to determine if vine regrowth can be used as a strategy to significantly delay ripening by close to two months. Project layout: The experiment was done in Spain on Tempranillo grapes grafted onto R110, for one season (2017). Vines were...
In this project, researchers wanted to evaluate the effects of late pruning and increased temperatures on the development and fruit composition of Shiraz.Project layout Shiraz vines in the Barossa valley were used for the three year trial. One group of vines were...
Researcher: Francois Halleen New Winetech funded project 2019 - The objective of this research project is to study the effect of mechanical pruning (MP) on the incidence and severity of grapevine foliar, fruit and trunk diseases compared to conventional pruning....
