Climate changes shift the weather conditions by a high degree of unpredictability; water shortage in the soil and plant by a continuous increase in daily average temperature every year are inevitable, which intimidate overall globe agriculture industry stability by the negative effect on plant health ...
Protected cultivation systems, such as high tunnels, have gained popularity for their ability to enhance growth conditions and extend the growing season of horticultural crops. The choice of the covering film in these systems can significantly impact cro
Climate change is affecting Mediterranean regions with extreme weather events such as prolonged droughts. These conditions can affect the ability of plants to grow and survive, even for species that are adapted to these regions; as a consequence, the risk of extinction for about 20% of plant spe...
Even in the latter case, for greenhouse cultivation systems there is always a risk of erroneous choices in the matching irrigation supply to crop evapotranspiration, as it may be affected by sudden changes in outside weather conditions or the use of climate control systems such as heating and ...
This will improve the user capacity for adjusting the timing and intensity of irrigation under changing weather conditions. The system should be easily combined with methods to define areas with characteristic water-stress behaviour within the orchard, such as airborne imagery. This allows for precise...
Associating isohydricity with species (e.g., ring-porous versus diffuse-porous wood) is apparently not supported by these results. If the choice of SDV-derived indexes is related to isohydricity, possible guidelines for these indicators could be determined from further in-depth analyses in future...
The standard industry practice for crop load management in many countries is based on chemical thinning (CT), with thinning chemicals applied during the bloom and post-bloom periods, followed up with hand thinning. However, the response to chemical thinning is very weather-dependent and there is ...
Therefore, the interest is turning to technologies that decouple plant production from natural ecosystems in terms of land use, seasonality, and weather fluctuations. A conventional solution for these issues can be controlled environment agriculture (CEA); within this broad term, plant factories (PF)...
Ionsatdtdoilteiornantot tchuelhtiivgharsuinscebpotitbhility of control and treated cthoensedtiwtioncuslt(iFviagrsu,rtehi2s )h.igh data could be also explained by the bad weather conditions (heavy rains before fruit collection) that favored infection by gray mold and other fungi and ...
Thus, smallholders may diversify their agricultural production as a risk mitigation strategy from the negative effects of weather shocks and other agro-ecological conditions [5]. Regarding determinants of farm production diversity within the two agro-ecological regions, results suggest that households' ...