Daniel Grohs

• Principal Investigator at Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA)

The use of growth regulators (GRs) in a mechanized bench grafting system is essential for the final quality of grafted grapevine plants. In Brazil, the GRs used (commercial waxes) are imported, increasing the production cost for nurseries. This work aimed to test the in vitro callus co-cultivation technique as a strategy for prospecting effective d...

Elsinoë ampelina, the causal agent of grapevine anthracnose, infects all aerial parts of the plant, causing severe grapes production losses. Essential oils, as natural antifungal product, are amongst the most promising natural plant protection alternatives because they are recognized as safe substances and show high antifungal activity against phyt...

Downy mildew (Plasmopara viticola) is the primary disease in viticulture worldwide, and your control requires synthetic fungicides applications to avoid quality and yield loss in the grapevines. However, alternatives to reduce synthetic fungicides are needed to ensure the consumer’s health and the environment. Essential oils (EOs) are amongst the m...

Grapevine trunk diseases (GTD) are listed among the main problems in world viticulture, restricting production and plant life. In the field, the establishment of these diseases is slow, variable and crossed (fungal complex), making it difficult to select resistant genotypes. In the present work, the techniques of plant micropropagation and controll...

Decline and death of young vines is a worldwide problem for viticulture that may lead to economic loss. Fungal pathogens have been associated with trunk and root diseases, including the black foot disease that affects the performance of the vineyards. Fungicides have not worked efficiently to control the disease and alternative methods should be in...

Grapevine production by classical grafting methods and in commercial scale emerged over 130 years. This system remained handmade until the mid-1950s, when the first international certification programs aimed at obtaining mother plants with high viral sanity emerged. The necessity to increase the scale of production on industrial model and plant mat...

The objective of this work was to prepare a prediction model for the phenology of grapevine cultivars (Bordô, Cabernet Sauvignon, Moscato Embrapa, Paulsen 1103, SO4, and IAC 572) using hot water treatment. The heat treatment with hot water consisted of combinations of three temperatures (50, 53, and 55°C) and three time periods (30, 45, and 60 min)...

The objective of this work was to validate a model based on the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for the prediction of spatial variability of accumulated biomass in shoots and wheat grain yield. Georeferenced readings of NDVI and biomass, at the end of tillering, and of grain yield were carried out. The proposed method allowed relating...

Resumo – O objetivo deste trabalho foi validar um modelo baseado no índice de vegetação por diferença normalizada (NDVI), para a predição da variabilidade espacial da biomassa acumulada na parte aérea e da produtividade de grãos de trigo. Foram realizadas leituras georreferenciadas de NDVI e biomassa, no final do afilhamento, e produtividade. O mod...

Rice development is affected by nitrogen, specially its tillering pattern which is determined by number of tillers. Tillers synchronism with main stem is related to leaves emission rate and both traits affect the number of productive culms potential. Tiller emission and synchronism of leaf development between main stem and tillers were studied in r...

Soil N mineral content is not considered when recommending N for grain crops in southern Brazil due to the high variation according to environmental conditions. In the methodology described here soil N mineral is considered in adjusted N recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce production costs. The soil levels of NH4+ and NO3- were analyz...

Soil N mineral content is not considered when recommending N for grain crops in southern Brazil due to the high variation according to environmental conditions. In the methodology described here soil N mineral is considered in adjusted N recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce production costs. The soil levels of NH 4+ and NO 3- were anal...

Synchronism of leaf development between main stem and tillers has a strong influence on tillers surviving, mainly on early stages plant cycle in rice. Leaf development in rice cultivar 'IRGA 417' was studied to identify synchronism between tillers and main stem on early vegetative period using the growth stages as proposed by HAUN (1973). Plants we...

Áreas com diferentes potenciais de rendimento dentro de uma lavoura necessitam ser manejadas separadamente, para fins de aplicação da adubação nitrogenada em cobertura. O equipamento baseado em sensoriamento remoto terrestre (GreenSeeker) é um dos instrumentos utilizados para separar diferentes zonas de manejo. Para fazer isso, o sensor permite a d...

Areas with different yield potential within a field need to be managed separately as for nitrogen application in small grain cereals. Terrestrial remote sensing-based equipment such as the GreenSeeker sensor is one of the tools available to handle different management zones. To do this, the sensor allows the definition of classes to estimate yield...

Ammonium and nitrate ions from soil organic N mineralization are the predominant N mineral forms available to plants. The ion ratio and distribution along the soil profile show daily fluctuations and oscillate seasonally. NH4+ and NO3- soil content were evaluated in two adjacent plots, one of them farmed continuously with barley, soybean and barley...

Ammonium and nitrate ions from soil organic N mineralization are the predominant N mineral forms available to plants. The ion ratio and distribution along the soil profile show daily fluctuations and oscillate seasonally. NH 4+ and NO3- soil content were evaluated in two adjacent plots, one of them farmed continuously with barley, soybean and barle...