A Feasibility Study on Utilizing Remote Sensing Data to Monitor Grape Yield and Berry Composition for Selective Harvesting by Leeko Lee, Andrew Reynolds, Briann Dorin, Adam Shemrock

“…The primary purpose of this study was to improve our understanding of remote sensing technologies and their potential application in vineyards to monitor yields and fruit composition, which could then be used for selective harvesting and winemaking. …”
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Evaluating the Potential of High-Resolution Visible Remote Sensing to Detect Shiraz Disease in Grapevines by Yeniu Mickey Wang, Bertram Ostendorf, Vinay Pagay

“…This preliminary study presents a new rapid and low-cost surveillance method to estimate SD infections in Shiraz vineyards, which could significantly lower the cost for growers who conduct on-ground SD visual assessments or lab-based tissue testing at the vineyard scale.…”
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An Over-Actuated Hexacopter Tilt-Rotor UAV Prototype for Agriculture of Precision: Modeling and Control by Gabriel Oliveira Pimentel, Murillo Ferreira dos Santos, José Lima, Paolo Mercorelli, Fernanda Mara Fernandes

“…The enhanced maneuverability allows for precise navigation in complex vineyard environments, enabling the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to perform tasks such as aerial imaging and crop health monitoring. …”
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Ion Pillat descoperă Balcicul by Carmen Brăgaru

“…The Florica estate, then the one of Miorcani and much later the vineyard of Izvorani were one by one the hospitable and inspiring places where Ion Pillat wrote constantly most of his famous poems. …”
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Detection of <i>Anaplasma phagocytophilum</i> DNA in Deer Keds: Massachusetts, USA by Patrick Pearson, Guang Xu, Eric L. Siegel, Mileena Ryan, Connor Rich, Martin J. R. Feehan, Blake Dinius, Shaun M. McAuliffe, Patrick Roden-Reynolds, Stephen M. Rich

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Improvement of the grapevine gene pool on the basis of agrobiological and physio-biochemical assessment of new genotypes under the unstable moderate continental climate conditions... by V. S. Petrov, A. E. Mishko, D. M. Tsiku, A. A. Marmorshtein

“…Development of table grape cultivars is currently aimed not only at higher vineyard productivity and grape quality but also at enhancing the adaptive potential of plants under the dynamic change in the climate conditions of Southern Russia. …”
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A New Dual Steering System in a Compact Tractor by Giorgio Paolo Massarotti, German Filippini, Gustavo Raush Alviach, Pedro Javier Gamez-Montero, Esteban Codina Macia

“…After outlining the theoretical methodology used to describe the model, both experimental and numerical analyses of a vineyard tractor in operation are presented. The goal of this work is to provide guidance on design methods and, through the Bond Graph-3D model, suggest the best control algorithms to minimize steering noise and enhance driving comfort. …”
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Evaluation of the impact of vine pruning periods on grape production and composition: an integrated approach considering different years and cultivars by Isabella Ghiglieno, Luca Facciano, Leonardo Valenti, Federico Amari, Gabriele Cola

“…This analysis gives a comprehensive understanding of the effects of pruning timing on grape yield and composition, providing viticulturists with transversally applicable information, useful for an aware management of the vineyard. …”
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Collision-Free Path-Planning for Six-DOF Serial Harvesting Robot Based on Energy Optimal and Artificial Potential Field by Lufeng Luo, Hanjin Wen, Qinghua Lu, Haojie Huang, Weilin Chen, Xiangjun Zou, Chenglin Wang

“…Collision-free autonomous path planning under a dynamic and uncertainty vineyard environment is the most important issue which needs to be resolved firstly in the process of improving robotic harvesting manipulator intelligence. …”
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Combining a Standardized Growth Class Assessment, UAV Sensor Data, GIS Processing, and Machine Learning Classification to Derive a Correlation with the Vigour and Canopy Volume of... by Ronald P. Dillner, Maria A. Wimmer, Matthias Porten, Thomas Udelhoven, Rebecca Retzlaff

“…Assessing vines’ vigour is essential for vineyard management and automatization of viticulture machines, including shaking adjustments of berry harvesters during grape harvest or leaf pruning applications. …”
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Effects of foliar applications of γ-polyglutamic acid and alginic acid on the quality and antioxidant activity of Marselan grapes and wines by Huawei Chen, Lijian Zhang, Bowei Yang, Miaomiao Wang, Litao Ma, Jingjing Shi, Zhenwen Zhang, Qingqing Zeng

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Polyphenolic compounds in Sauvignon Blanc - from grapes to wine by Davin Williams, Anscha Zietsman, Jeanne Brand, Hans Eyeghe-Bickong, Melané Vivier

“…Sauvignon Blanc vines from one vineyard block were manipulated to yield berries with distinctly different phenolic potentials by creating a high light (HL) or a low light (LL) microclimate in the fruiting zone of the canopy during the growing season. …”
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Identifying the pedoclimatic conditions most critical in the susceptibility of a grapevine cultivar to esca disease by Valérie Hofstetter, Vinciane Monod, Matthieu Wilhelm, Olivier Viret, Katia Gindro, Daniel Croll, Vivian Zufferey

“…We collected epidemiological and physiological data once a year for four consecutive years in 19 vineyard plots located in four wine-growing regions of Western Switzerland. …”
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Pisco, an Appellation of Origin from Peru: A review by Juan Carlos Palma, Johana Fabián-Campos, Jacqueline Jannet Dioses-Morales, Amelia Devorah Arias-Durand, Gaby Espinoza-Córdova, Miki Gonzales-Uscamayta, Joel C. Rengifo-Maravi, Epifanio Teófilo Chire-Murillo, Víctor A. Caro Sánchez-Benites, Paola Jorge-Montalvo, Lizardo Visitación-Figueroa

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The Influences of Rootstock on the Performance of Pinot Noir (Vitis vinifera L.): Berry and Wine Composition by Yipeng Chen, Zijian Liang, Mark Krstic, Peter Clingeleffer, Kate Howell, Deli Chen, Pangzhen Zhang

“…This study was conducted at a commercial vineyard located in Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. …”
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Mathematical modeling of Glassy-winged sharpshooter population by Jeong-Mi Yoon, Volodymyr Hrynkiv, Lisa Morano, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Sara Wilder, Forrest Mitchell

“…Bacteria are vectored fromone vine to the next by a number of xylem feeding insect species.Of these, the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter (GWSS) is considered tobe the primary xylem feeding insect in Texas vineyards. Anextensive database of the xylem-feeding population frequencies wascollected by USDA-APHIS for Texas vineyards over multiple years.This project focused on a subset of data, GWSS frequencies within25 vineyards in Edwards Plateau located in central Texas. …”
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Small Cages with Insect Couples Provide a Simple Method for a Preliminary Assessment of Mating Disruption by Françoise Briand, Patrick M. Guerin, Pierre-Joseph Charmillot, Patrik Kehrli

“…Cages were installed in the centre of pheromone-treated and untreated vineyards. In several trials, 1 to 20 couples of grape moths per cage were released for one to three nights. …”
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The Wine Quality of Merlot Relies in Irrigation Supplementation and Spotlights Sustainable Production Constraints in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems by Camila Ribalta-Pizarro, Paula Muñoz, Sergi Munné-Bosch

“…Here, we aim to evaluate the effect of irrigation in Merlot vineyards, on grapes production and quality, and also on wine acceptability. …”
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<i>Cryptoblabes gnidiella</i> Millière (Pyralidae, Phycitinae): An Emerging Grapevine Pest in Greece by Konstantinos B. Simoglou, Iraklis Topalidis, Dimitrios N. Avtzis, Achilleas Kaltsidis, Emmanouil Roditakis

“…In this brief communication, we present the first documented cases of honeydew moth infestation of grapevine in Greece, specifically in two organic vineyards in the Regional Unit of Drama in Northeastern Greece in 2024. …”
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A comprehensive review on grapes (Vitis spp.) cultivation and its crop management by Abhijit Khadatkar, Chetankumar Prakash Sawant, Deepak Thorat, Ajita Gupta, Swapnaja Jadhav, Dhananjay Gawande, Ajit Prahlad Magar

“…Therefore, the technological interventions for grapes production as well as its management in vineyards have been reviewed in the paper. Vineyards are undergoing a gradual transformation into a mechanized way with the advent of newer and ready to adopt technologies like planting, pruning, weeding, spraying, fertilizer application, irrigation and harvesting. …”
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