Canopy management to improve grape yield and wine quality-principles and practices

RE Smart, JK Dick, IM Gravett… - South african journal of …, 1990 - journals.ac.za
This paper reviews the subject of canopy management with an attempt to develop principles.
These principles provide guidelines for canopy surface area amount; spacing between …

Climate change impacts and adaptive strategies: lessons from the grapevine

JR Mosedale, KE Abernethy, RE Smart… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The cultivation of grapevines for winemaking, known as viticulture, is widely cited as a
climate‐sensitive agricultural system that has been used as an indicator of both historic and …

Rapid estimates of relative water content

RE Smart, GE Bingham - Plant physiology, 1974 - academic.oup.com
… For this to be so requires (s + u) or t in equation 1 to be constant; then, algebraic manipulation
… MEYER, RE AND JR GiNGRICH. Osmoticstress effects on wlieat using a split root solution …

Principles of grapevine canopy microclimate manipulation with implications for yield and quality. A review

RE Smart - American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 1985 - Am Soc Enol Viticulture
This paper develops concepts of grapevine canopy microclimate by considering how the
canopy presence can alter the climate. Solar radiation levels are particularly affected due to …

Water relations of grapevines.

RE Smart, BG Coombe - 1983 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The following are discussed: (a) the hydrological cycle, (b) water use and transpiration, (c)
absorption of water, (d) diurnal and seasonal patterns of water relations, (e) effects of water …

[PDF][PDF] Canopy microclimate modification for the cultivar Shiraz. II. Effects on must and wine composition

RE Smart, JB Robinson, GR Due, CJ Brien - Vitis, 1985 - core.ac.uk
… These results show the effect of vigour (blocks) on vine growth and quality responses. For
most variables analysed, there was a considerable spread of values and overlap occurred …

Light quality and quantity effects on fruit ripening for Cabernet Sauvignon

RE Smart, SM Smith… - American journal of …, 1988 - Am Soc Enol Viticulture
… Absorption at 660 nm (red) is 95% and 21% at 730 nm (far red), with respective reflection
values of 5% and 41%. The spectral characteristics of grapevine leaves are noted by Smart (13)…

Effects of irradiance, temperature, and leaf water potential on photosynthesis of vine leaves.

PE Kriedemann, RE Smart - 1971 - cabidigitallibrary.org
In studies using portable field equipment a newly designed cuvette was clamped on to the
lower leaf surface allowing direct exposure of the upper surface. The rate of CO 2 assimilation …

Solar heating of grape berries and other spherical fruits

RE Smart, TR Sinclair - Agricultural Meteorology, 1976 - Elsevier
… These relationships are functions of flux density of absorbed radiation, fruit size and thermal
conductivity, and a convective heat transfer coefficient that may be calculated from wind …

Aspects of water relations of the grapevine (Vitis vinifera)

RE Smart - American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 1974 - Am Soc Enol Viticulture
Diurnal patterns of leaf water potential (ψ) and stomatal resistance (r s ) were investigated
under different irrigation treatments and evaporative conditions. The ambient environment, …