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Leaf water potential and sap flow as indicators of water stress in Crimson ‘seedless’ grapevines under different irrigation strategies

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Vitis vinifera L. cv. Crimson Seedless is a late season red table grape developed in 1989, with a high market value and increasingly cultivated under protected environments to extend the availability of seedless table grapes into the late fall. The purpose of this work was to evaluate leaf water potential and sap flow as indicators of water stress in Crimson Seedless vines under standard and reduced irrigation strategy, consisting of 70 % of the standard irrigation depth. Additionally, two sub-treatments were applied, consisting of normal irrigation throughout the growing season and a short irrigation induced stress period between veraison and harvest. Leaf water potential measurements coherently signaled crop-available water variations caused by different irrigation treatments, suggesting that this plant-based method can be reliably used to identify water-stress conditions. The use of sap flow density data to establish a ratio based on a reference ‘well irrigated vine’ and less irrigated vines can potentially be used to signal differences in the transpiration rates, which may be suitable for improving irrigation management strategies while preventing undesirable levels of water stress. Although all four irrigation strategies resulted in the production of quality table grapes, significant differences (p ≤ 0.05) were found in both berry weight and sugar content between the standard irrigation and reduced irrigation treatments. Reduced irrigation increased slightly the average berry size as well as sugar content and technical maturity index. The 2-week irrigation stress period had a negative effect on these parameters.

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Acknowledgments

This research was funded by the project PRODER no. 46190 “MORECRIMSON—Técnicas de Produção e de Conservação de uvas sem grainha da variedade Crimson”. We thank the project-partner and grape producer Vale da Rosa and its staff for providing their facilities to host the study.

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  1. ICAAM- Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

    S. Shahidian, R. Coelho, A. Santos, M. Vaz, A. Rato & J. Serrano

  2. Project PRODER, operation 46190, “MORECRIMSON – Técnicas de Produção e Conservação de uvas sem grainha da variedade Crimson”, Évora, Portugal

    P. Valverde & S. Rodrigues

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Shahidian, S., Valverde, P., Coelho, R. et al. Leaf water potential and sap flow as indicators of water stress in Crimson ‘seedless’ grapevines under different irrigation strategies. Theor. Exp. Plant Physiol. 28, 221–239 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40626-016-0064-8

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