Autonomous mowing and turf-type bermudagrass as innovations for an environment-friendly floor management of a vineyard in coastal Tuscany
| Autor: | Alberto Minelli, Marco Volterrani, Lisa Caturegli, Andrea Peruzzi, Monica Gaetani, Giovanni Caruso, Giacomo Palai, Marco Mazzoncini, Simone Magni, Mino Sportelli, Gabriele Vittori, Michel Pirchio, Luisa Martelloni, Alberto Materazzi, Christian Frasconi, Michele Raffaelli, Daniele Antichi, Nicola Grossi, Marco Fontanelli |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Magni S., Sportelli M., Grossi N., Volterrani M., Minelli A., Pirchio M., Fontanelli M., Frasconi C., Gaetani M., Martelloni L., Peruzzi A., Raffaelli M., Mazzoncini M., Antichi D., Caruso G., Palai G., Materazzi A., Vittori G., Caturegli L. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
soil protection robotic mower turfgrass innovative agronomic practice soil management business.product_category Mower Growing season Plant Science 01 natural sciences Vineyard Soil management Yield (wine) lcsh:Agriculture (General) Cover crop 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences lcsh:S1-972 Agronomy Sustainability Management system 040103 agronomy & agriculture 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Environmental science business Agronomy and Crop Science 010606 plant biology & botany Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Agriculture, Vol 10, Iss 189, p 189 (2020) Agriculture Volume 10 Issue 5 |
| Popis: | The establishment of permanent cover crops is becoming a common practice in vineyard floor management. Turfgrass science may provide species and techniques with a high potential for improving the sustainability of vineyard floor management. Based on this assumption, an experiment was carried out during 2018 and 2019 at the Donna Olimpia Vineyard, Bolgheri, Italy. The trial aimed at comparing an innovative floor management system based on a turf-type cultivar of bermudagrass mown with an autonomous mower with a conventional floor management system. Ground cover percentage, energy consumption, CO2 emissions, grapevine water status, leaf nitrogen content, fruit yield and must composition have been assessed in order to perform the comparison. The innovative vineyard floor management produced an almost complete ground cover (98%) at the end of the second growing season, with the resident species reduced to a small percentage (4%). Resident species growing under-trellis were efficiently controlled without herbicide applications. A lower primary energy consumption and a reduction in CO2 emissions were observed for the innovative management system compared to the conventional management system. Grapevine water status, leaf chlorophyll content, soil&ndash plant analyses development (SPAD), fruit yields and must composition were similar between the different soil management systems. Based on results obtained in this trial, turf-type bermudagrass and innovative mowing machines may contribute to enhance the sustainability of vineyard floor management. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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