To mitigate the potential drawbacks of late pruning, this study evaluated an alternative approach utilising the anatomical features of the umbrella trellis system, cane pruning, and apical dominance. Vine canes were tied at four distinct phenological...
This study evaluated the effects of late pruning and late apical leaf removal on grapevine phenology, fruit composition, yield parameters, xylem sap carbohydrate content, and grape skin polyphenol levels over two consecutive vintages (2022 and 2023)....
Traditional winter pruning in dormancy (BBCH-00) as control (C) and three late pruning treatments, LP1 (wool stage—BBCH-05), LP2 (two leaves folded—BBCH-12), and LP3 (four leaves folded—BBCH-14), were applied on Kékfrankos gr...
‘Malbec’ grapevines commonly have high yield, thus intermittently negatively affecting wine quality parameters. Here, we describe the use of late shoot pruning (LSP) practice applied for wine quality improvement. We examined the effect of...
Targeted pruning techniques may have the potential to shift phenological progression in grapevines. These approaches can be useful to escape late frost (after budburst) and to delay ripening, maintaining yield and berry quality under specific environ...
The super high-density (SHD) production system has recently been introduced to the Chilean European plum (Prunus domestica L.) industry, but the potential of applying regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) in this system remains unexplored. As irrigation...
This study compares conventional spur pruning and sap-flow respectful spur pruning, applied at four pruning dates (October, December, January, March), on grapevine ecophysiology, yield, and grape quality in Priorat (Spain) during an exceptionally hot...
Spring frost is a perennial and widespread problem across many cool climatic and high-elevation winegrowing regions of the world. Vitis vinifera L. cv. Pinot noir is an early budding cultivar; thus, it is particularly susceptible to late-spring frost...
Introduced in the late 1980s for generalization purposes, pruning has now become a staple for compressing deep neural networks. Despite many innovations in recent decades, pruning approaches still face core issues that hinder their performance or sca...
Recent vision–language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance across multimodal benchmarks but suffer from high inference costs due to the large number of visual tokens. Prior studies have shown that many image tokens receive consistently low...
Mechanical transplanting often causes root damage to rice seedlings, but its yield impacts in double-cropping systems remain unclear. A two-year field experiment was conducted in early- and late-season rice under three root damage treatments: no dama...
Interest in the wine sector focusing on no- or low-alcohol wines is growing. De-alcoholation, typically a post-fermentation process, faces restrictions in some countries and is often quite costly. Using raw materials like low-sugar grapes suitable fo...
Almond is an important tree nut crop worldwide, and planted areas have been increasing year after year. While self-fertility is one of the key factors when it comes to improved almond productivity of new cultivars, yield is also affected by the numbe...
The Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a key physiological metric in viticulture, associated with vine health, yield, and responsiveness to environmental and management factors. This study, conducted in a Mediterranean Sauvignon Blanc vineyard (2017–2023...
Loquat is an evergreen fruit crop which blooms from autumn–winter, and supports human beings with juicy fruit from late spring to early summer. However, the most traditional cultivars of this crop produce small fruit and bear a much lower yield...
Cassava breeding faces obstacles due to late flowering and poor flower and seed set. The acceleration of breeding processes and the reduction in each cycle’s duration hinge upon efficiently conducting crosses to yield ample progeny for subseque...
Litter and pruning biomass are integral to nutrient cycling in the plant–soil ecosystem, contributing significantly to organic matter formation and humus development through decomposition and nutrient mineralization, which ultimately influence...
As disaster imagery and social media reports become vital for crisis response, automated assessment systems must address challenges of multimodal integration, privacy-aware learning, and computational efficiency. To address these challenges, we propo...
Commercial elderberry production requires complete pruning in late fall to maintain productive canes. For integrated farms (livestock and crops), this biomass has potential as ensiled fodder for ruminant livestock. The objectives of this study were t...
Lavandula dentata is a medicinal and aromatic plant rich in specialised secondary metabolites, but the biomedical potential of leaf-surface metabolites recovered from pruning biomass remains poorly investigated. In this study, a pruning-derived leaf-...
A three-year study in two Mediterranean peach orchards monitored Auchenorrhyncha species, including the main vectors of plant pathogens causing significant economic losses. The research focused on the management of two polyphagous leafhoppers, Asymme...
This study evaluated the effect of an integrated irrigation practice (IP), including regulated deficit irrigation (RDI), managed through an IoT-based platform, on a pear orchard (Pyrus communis L., cv. ‘Krystali’) compared to the farmer&r...
In autonomous exploration tasks in unstructured terrain, exploration efficiency and map topology quality have been a difficult problem to balance. Among the current autonomous exploration methods, geometry-based exploration methods only focus on expl...
Pinus yunnanensis (Franch), a species endemic to southwestern China, provides significant ecological and economic benefits. The quality of afforestation can be enhanced by promoting high-quality sprout growth. This study analyzed the effects of six f...
Preeclampsia (PE), a major cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity, is a hypertensive pregnancy disorder with poorly defined pathogenesis. While dysregulation of core circadian genes including brain and muscle ARNT-like 1 (BMAL1; also termed ARNTL)...
To advance automatic tomato leaf disease detection in precision agriculture, this study addresses critical challenges in complex field environments, such as variable lesion scales, background interference, and deployment constraints. We propose MSP-N...
Caffeine is a weak, nonselective adenosine receptor antagonist. At low-to-moderate doses, caffeine has a stimulating effect; however, at higher doses, it can act as a depressant. It can function both as a neuroprotectant and a neurotoxin. In experime...
Global warming is challenging the performances of medium-to-late ripening red Vitis vinifera cultivars whose harvest dates might be consistently anticipated at the detriment of still insufficient phenolic maturity. A 3-year study (2021–2023) wa...
(1) Background: In managing ecological tea gardens, litter composed of pruned and fallen tea leaves from companion tree species is an important component of tea garden soil. The decomposition of litter plays a crucial role in regulating nutrient cycl...
Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill., also named Cactus pear, is a crop widespread in many countries with Mediterranean and subtropical climates, where it represents a valuable source of food. However, in southern Europe, this fruit market is limited to a...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has claimed many lives since it was first reported in late December 2019. However, there is still no drug proven to be effective against the virus. In this study, a candidate host–pathogen–...
Post-disaster mountain UAV search-and-rescue path planning must balance range, energy, threats, search reward, and attitude jitter, forming a multi-constraint, multi-objective problem in 3D terrain with disconnected feasible regions. Existing artific...
For lung cancers, cellular trajectories and fates are strongly pruned by cell intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Over the past couple of decades, the combination of comprehensive molecular and genomic approaches, as well as the use of relevant pre-clin...
Durum wheat production in the Mediterranean basin faces increasing climate variability and thus the need for computationally efficient tools to support agronomic decision-making at regional scale. Process-based crop models such as AquaCrop provide me...
American plum line pattern virus (APLPV) is the most infrequently reported Ilarvirus infecting stone fruit trees and is of sufficient severity to be classified as an EPPO quarantine A1 pathogen. In late spring, yellow line pattern symptoms were obser...
Flowering period management is a critical component of orchard production, significantly influencing the accuracy and timeliness of agricultural decisions such as flower and fruit thinning, yield stabilization, improvement in fruit commodity value, a...
Ballota acetabulosa (L.) Benth. (syn. Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus (L.) Salmaki and Siadati), f. Lamiaceae, the Greek horehound, is a compact evergreen small shrub native to Greece, with hairy grey-green leaves, that bears small pink-purple flowers w...