Wondering how to improve your current irrigation practices? In 2014, Fruition Sciences conducted a study on 8 California vineyards to compare traditional irrigation method and sap flow-based irrigation methods. We hoped to understand the impact of using sap flow sensor as irrigation trigger on water use and vineyard performance relative […]
It is commonly admitted that irrigation strategy has an impact on root size and distribution in the soil. Recently it was shown that irrigation strategy also affects vine vascular structure and that delaying the first irrigation contribute to increasing vine hydraulic resistance (here). More irrigation early season makes the vine […]
Fruition Sciences will provide you the Dyostem® results directly on 360viti, our vineyard intelligence platform. Results will be presented in two ways. One sugar loading curve per sampled blocks. Measurements will start at veraison. The sampling frequency should be once a week for red varietals and twice for whites. A minimum of 4 […]
Fruition Sciences has partnered in the US with Vivelys and ETS Laboratories to provide an original sugar loading analysis based on Dyostem® readings. Dyostem® is a tool revealing berry sugar accumulation profile. It is manufactured by Vivelys and is available for purchase in the US. Dyostem® is also available through ETS […]
Why tracking sugar loading is important? Sugar accumulation rate (as you can see in Figure 1) indicates how the plant is faring during ripening. It is directly related to plant photosynthetic activity, the balance between leaf area and amount of fruit and the vine physiological condition. As such, tracking and assessing […]
