Throughout the last thirty years, major shifts in vineyard floor management have been observed. Challenges initially posed by intensive tillage included high rates of soil erosion and degeneration structure organic matter, which lead viticulturists to depend more heavily on herbicide use as an effective weed control strategy. However, increase persistence toxicity water, soils, grapevines, incr...

Precision fertilization implies the need to identify variability of soil fertility, which is costly and time-consuming. Remotely measured data can be a solution. Using this strategy, study was conducted, in vineyard, delineate different management zones using two indicators: apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). To understand contribution each ind...

Abstract The quality of the Colli Albani volcanic soils has certainly contributed to vine cultivars hence name one oldest wines (i.e., Alban wine). alkali up 15 wt%, SiO2 ≤ 52 wt% and emplacement at high temperature (≤ 600 °C) are bedrock features that have deeply influenced soil-forming processes in vineyards. However, peculiar not well known. Field survey textural, mineralogical, chemical dat...

The fast intensification of agriculture affects many systems. In recent decades, traditional vineyards have been rapidly converted to trellis in Spain (the country with the largest vineyard surface worldwide) an attempt reduce harvesting costs and increase vine productivity. implications this modernization on farmland biodiversity are still largely unknown. We studied 52 (26 26 trellis) from Ju...

To determine how irrigation influences variegated grape leafhopper biology and pest status, field studies were conducted in an experimental vineyard at the Kearney Agricultural Center. Results showed that increases in the amount of applied water were correlated to increases in leafhopper nymph density and size. Similarly, adult leafhoppers dispersed in greater numbers and had a higher reproduct...

Irrigation can be responsible for salt accumulation in the root zone of grapevines when late autumn and winter precipitation is not enough to leach salts from soil upper horizons, turning unsuitable grape production. The aim this work present a novel methodology outline areas, within drip-irrigated vineyard, with low moisture content (SMC) during, after, an 11-month agricultural drought. Soil (...