[11]. According to Feng et al. [12], canker disease is annually limiting apple production by more than 50% in China, the largest apple producer. This could be due to harsh weather conditions, as well as potassium deficiency, which leads to susceptibility of the trees toCytosporaspp. [13...
This could be due to harsh weather conditions, as well as potassium deficiency, which leads to susceptibility of the trees to Cytospora spp. [13]. An accurate identification is needed to ensure informed disease management; however, it is challenging to distinguish between different causal agents ...
Wood distillate application on plants could also be extended after treatment cessation in order to investigate the short-term durability of its effect, thus providing new insights regarding the duration of WD's protective effect for which information is still lacking. The present research investigates ...
This global challenge will also be aggravated by water scarcity and changing weather conditions, posing a significant threat to food security [6]. In this sense, new research opportunities and the incorporation of new technologies that are able to improve agricul- tural production are key to ...
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 ...
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' ...
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)...
However, in permanent horticultural crops, as fruit trees or vines, a significant part of the biomass remains in the permanent structure of the plant, and only a minor part is removed through the leaves (in the deciduous species) and the pruning wood [64]. The most common N loss ...
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...