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Vegetative Growth, Reproductive Development and Vineyard Balance

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Methodologies and Results in Grapevine Research

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In the last decades, viticultural research has made important progress due to the implementation of many technical advances to this field. In addition to “classical” viticultural research, it is now possible to analyze vine behaviour with many different approaches, such as plant physiology, genomics, proteomics, precision viticulture and so on. These changes extend our understanding of viticulture, but they may also lead to a certain heterogeneity in the methodology used to estimate the basic characteristics of the vineyards (e.g.: vegetative and reproductive growth). Even worse, measurements of those parameters are sometimes neglected. In order to optimize the relevance and inter-disciplinarity of our work, and its applicability to the vineyard, we should tend toward protocol standardization, the most suitable measurements and ways of expressing results should be determined for each circumstance. This chapter attempts to shed some light on some methodological aspects related to the measurement of vine vegetative and reproductive growth and vineyard balance. We have tried to be comprehensive, but not exhaustive, since some topics are also the subject of other chapters in this book whereas others are beyond its scope.

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Abbreviations

LAI:

Leaf Area Index

NIR:

Near Infrared

SA:

External leaf area

TCSA:

Trunk cross-sectional area

VPI:

Vineyard Potentiality Index

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Acknowledgments

Some of the results included are part of several research projects funded by Gobierno de Navarra (refs. IIM11879.RI1; PA03029; PA058; PA057), Fundación Fuentes Dutor, Verdtech Nuevo Campo SA and Bodegas Ochoa. Besides, the authors would like to thank the long list of vineyard owners and managers that have gently allowed us prowling around their vineyards, and also to all the students and staff that contributed to this research with their time and effort.

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  1. Departamento de Produccion Agraria, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, (Navarra), 31006, Spain

    L.G. Santesteban, C. Miranda & J.B. Royo

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Santesteban, L., Miranda, C., Royo, J. (2010). Vegetative Growth, Reproductive Development and Vineyard Balance. In: Delrot, S., Medrano, H., Or, E., Bavaresco, L., Grando, S. (eds) Methodologies and Results in Grapevine Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9283-0_4

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