Claim · model-written summary
Minimally pruned vines had a higher cluster number than hand-pruned vines.
- Taxon
- Chardonnayt0
- Treatment
- minimally pruned (MP)e0
- Outcome
- cluster numbere1
- Direction
- highere1
- Comparator
- hand-(HP)e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
t0“minimally pruned Chardonnay canopies”
e0“hand-(HP) and minimally pruned (MP) potted Chardonnay canopies”
e1“The MP vines showed higher shoot number, distinctly reduced leaf and shoot size, and a higher cluster number with smaller berries and less berries per cluster compared to HP vines”
Title
Seasonal growth and gas exchange of conventionally and minimally pruned Chardonnay canopies
Poni, Stefano; Intrieri, Cesare; Magnanini, Eugenio Julius Kühn-Institut 2026. doi:10.5073/vitis.2000.39.13-18
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Minimally pruned vines had a higher shoot number than hand-pruned vines.
- Intervention effect Minimally pruned vines had reduced leaf and shoot size compared with hand-pruned vines.
- Intervention effect Minimally pruned vines had smaller berries than hand-pruned vines.
- Intervention effect Minimally pruned vines had fewer berries per cluster than hand-pruned vines.
- Intervention effect Minimally pruned vines showed 4-6-fold higher CO2 fixation than hand-pruned vines from about three weeks after budbreak until bloom.
- Intervention effect By canopy completion, canopy NCER was still 13 % higher in minimally pruned vines than in hand-pruned vines.
- Intervention effect Berry sugar concentration was not significantly lower in minimally pruned vines than in hand-pruned vines.
- Intervention effect Minimally pruned vines gave about 70 % higher yield than hand-pruned vines.
- Recommendation Minimal pruning is a valuable tool to improve the performance of Chardonnay vines under the experimental conditions.
- Association Canopy NCER in hand-pruned vines began to recover together with the transition to a faster shoot growth phase.