Advances in sensor miniaturization are increasing the global popularity of unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV)-based remote sensing applications in many domains of agriculture. Fruit …

Drip irrigation combined with nitrogen (N) fertigation is applied in order to save water and
improve nutrient efficiency. Nitrification inhibitors reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A field …

The development of reliable methods for the estimation of crown architecture parameters is
a key issue for the quantitative evaluation of tree crop adaptation to environment conditions …

The oil of the fruit of the olive (Olea europaea L.) is the cornerstone of the Mediterranean diet
(Keys 1980). This product represents a heritage at the very center of the civilization, history …

Super high-density (SHD) olive orchards are rapidly expanding since the first plantation was
set up in Spain in the 1990s. Because there are no long-term studies characterizing these …

Hand‐harvested traditional plantations with 70–100 trees ha− 1 are being replaced by high‐
density mechanically harvested orchards. Diverse typologies of high‐density orchards are …

Olive cultivars represent an invaluable heritage of genetic variability selected over more
than 5500 years of cultivation. This high diversity of local cultivars is a common feature in …

The olive tree counts among the most important oil-producing crops throughout the
Mediterranean region. The century-long presence of olive trees in most producing countries …

The resistance of 11 olive cultivars to Verticillium dahliae was assessed in two experimental
field trials. One-year-old rooted olive cuttings from the World Olive Germplasm Bank (IFAPA …

Super high density (SHD) olive has been introduced in Italy, mainly in the southern regions
(flat areas of Apulia and Sicily), in the middle of 2000s, using only three cultivars of low …