Extreme climatic events, such as drought and heavy rainfall, are increasing with climate change. These events can threaten agroecosystems, including vineyards. Cover crops often grown in vineyards for various reasons be an effective strategy change adaptation. Understanding which cover crop species establish well under extreme conditions is important. We conducted a greenhouse experiment to inv...

In this paper, we introduce the new software environment CRIMSON: CardiovasculaR Integrated Modelling and SimulatiON. This software provides a number of tools for medical image data analysis, preprocessing, segmentation and blood flow simulation. In this paper we describe the work flow necessary to perform such tasks as well its implementation in CRIMSON based on multiple well-established opens...

Elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) can affect both the quantity and quality of plant tissues produced, which will impact the cycling and storage of carbon (C) within plant/soil systems and thus the rate of CO2 release back to the atmosphere. Research is needed to more accurately quantify the effects of elevated CO2 and associated feedbacks on soil CO2 efflux in order to predict the poten...

Cover crops (CCs) are known to influence water infiltration just prior termination, but their effects on over time less known. This study investigated the of CCs in situ CC termination (during April) and again 2 mo after June). The multi-species mixture used included hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth.), crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum L.), winter wheat (Triticum aestivum peas (Lathyrus hirsu...

One of the most significant yield losses in tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L.) is due to weeds. Yellow and purple nutsedge, large crabgrass, Palmer amaranth are troublesome weed species production throughout southeastern United States. This study aimed determine impact soil steaming, plastic mulching, cover crops on suppression, height, fruit yield. The used were hairy vetch Vicia villosa ), cri...

Some plant growth regulators, including ethephon, can stimulate abscission of mature grape berries. The stimulation of grape berry abscission reduces fruit detachment force (FDF) and promotes the development of a dry stem scar, both of which could facilitate the production of high quality stemless fresh-cut table grapes. The objective of this research was to determine how two potential abscissi...

Irrigation with moderately saline waters may provoke soil salinization and sodification. The objectives of this three-year study were (1) to quantify these processes in two seedless table grapevines (Vitis vinifera cvs. Autumn Royal and Crimson) subject to a full irrigation and two regulated deficit irrigations (RDI, irrigated at 80% and 60% of net irrigation requirements from post-veraison til...

The predicted existence of cytoplasmic Ca2+ gradients during the photopolarization of the zygotes of the brown algae, Pelvetia and Fucus, has proved to be difficult to establish, and the downstream targets of the putative gradients are not known. We have used quantitative microinjection of the long excitation wavelength Ca2+ indicator, Calcium Crimson, and of antibodies against calmodulin to in...