Vineyard floor management has multiple goals that encompass improving weed
management and soil conservation, reducing soil resource availability to control vine vigor …

In order to cope with phylloxera, most grapes worldwide must be grafted on a rootstock.
Furthermore, grapevine rootstocks are an essential underground structure for the plant to …

Because the southeastern US Coastal Plain has high temperatures and abundant rainfall, its
sandy soils have poor physical characteristics and low carbon (C) contents. To increase soil …

Spade methods to visually evaluate soil structural quality (Sq) are simple, quick, cheap and
can be used by farmers, gardeners, consultants and the scientific community. However …

Visual soil evaluation techniques have gained popularity and are increasingly used in
agriculture and soil science for research, consultancy and teaching purposes. We describe …

Worldwide interest for organic farming increased significantly since the last decade. Wine
makes no exception to this trend, as consumer demand for organic wines and environmental …

Resilience to drought stress is an important crop selection and breeding target particularly
under an environment of increasing freshwater scarcities resulting from higher …

Floor management in organic viticulture plays a key role as weed suppression and soil
health must be warranted through practices that minimise the recourse to extensive tillage …

Hardsetting soils have been defined as soils that set to a hard, structureless mass during
drying and are thereafter difficult or impossible to cultivate until the profile is rewetted. Soil …

The agricultural sector of Cyprus is seriously affected by climate change impacts. In the
framework of the ADAPT2CLIMA project, the available techniques and methods …