GRAPEGROWING
Further research has been conducted
to develop in-field technology to assess
berry cell death non-destructively using
hyperspectral cameras and impedance spectrometry (Dr. Roberta De Bei,
Sigfredo Fuentes, professor Tyerman and
professor Javier Tardaguila).
Conclusions
New techniques resulting from these
VOF initiatives are currently being
tested in commercial vineyards in
Australia and Chile as part of a beta
testing stage. Some of these techniques
will soon be commercially available to
growers to be applied in the field (WPA
and Canopy LAI).
In the meantime, the international VOF is
currently working on other emerging technologies with exciting preliminary results
that will add to newly developed tools. PWV
Figure 7. Berry cell death analysis using Matlab programming techniques for image analysis.12
This text was edited from first publication
in the May/June 2013 Wine & Viticulture
Journal with permission of the publisher,
Winetitles.
We acknowledge important funding contributions to the Australian VOF from the Waite
Research Institute (WRI) of the University of
Adelaide and the Wine2030 program from
the same university.
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