G. Selles’s research while affiliated with Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias and other places

... Decreasing fruit firmness was described by several authors, when vines were treated with increasing water limitation and drought stress levels [12,18]. However, Zunñiga et al. [9,30] did not find decreasing fruit firmness when screening the response of quality and yield parameters of 'Flame Seedless' and 'Thompson Seedless' to different irrigation amounts. Overall, firmness is known to be highly dependent on the maturity stage of the berries, turgor pressure, water content [31], epidermal deterioration, and increasing cell wall elasticity [32]. ...

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Impact of Water Deficit during Fruit Development on Quality and Yield of Young Table Grape Cultivars

... Our study found oleic acid at 5.79 ± 0.10 % and linoleic acid at 5.37 ± 0.02 %, which is consistent with the lower amounts (7-10 %) reported in previous findings. The concentration of fatty acids in avocado oil varies significantly depending on the extraction methods (Liu et al., 2023) and the maturity of the fruit (Ferreyra et al., 2016), highlighting the need for standardization in fatty acid analysis. This variability may explain the differences between our results and those of other studies. ...

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Valorization of avocado seeds (Persea americana Mill.): An alternative oil source for mayonnaise prototype production and its natural quality attribute

... The syringes were reconnected to the Rhizons; 4 h later the solution was extracted, acidified, and the soluble Cu concentration was determined. For 55 d, Rhizon samples were collected daily, with applications of 250 mL of water to replace the sample volume removed (maximum 180 mL d À1 ) and the humidity lost to evapotranspiration (47 to 66 mL d À1 in Quillota, Ferreyra et al., 2009). ...

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Biodegradable chelate enhances the phytoextraction of copper by Oenothera picensis grown in copper-contaminated acid soils

... La concentración de calcio en la fruta tiende a aumentar rápidamente durante la etapa principal de división celular, la absorción de calcio y distribución en la planta es de particular importancia en el manejo de la fruta en postcosecha. Los exportadores utilizan la concentración de calcio en el fruto como una herramienta de determinación de la calidad (Rodríguez, 2012). Se encuentra una relación lineal entre el contenido de calcio en fruto y su peso. ...

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Efecto de la aplicación de Calcio y Boro sobre la calidad y rendimiento del fruto de Banano Cavendish “Valery” (AAA)

... and cluster weight (g). Similar reduction in yield and its components of grapevines were reported by Ferreyra et al. [31], where deficit water and low soil water content cause stomata to close, limiting the plant's ability to take up carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for photosynthesis, which in turn causes water stress [32]. Furthermore, Farooq et al. [33] found that dry matter production, assimilate translocation, and dry matter portioning all went down. ...

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Effect of integrate water shortage and soil conditioners on water productivity, growth, and yield of Red Globe grapevines grown in sandy soil

... In pears, the fruit diameter growth was closely correlated temporally with trunk shrinkage (Maas, 2007). In contrast, daily grape berry shrinkage and recovery occurred much later (hours) compared to trunk shrinkage, with berry recovery times varying with fruit growth stage according to the relative water supply to the berry from xylem and phloem (Otarola et al., 2014). While fruit growth is often measured at harvest to determine the impacts of different irrigation schedules, such dynamic fruit growth measurements are rarely utilised by researchers. ...

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Crop physiological responses to irrigation and regulatory mechanisms

... Second, previous studies found that soil organic carbon (SOC), soil total nitrogen (TN), soil available nitrogen (AN), soil available phosphorus (AP), soil water content (SM) and soil pH had significant influences on bacterial communities during secondary forest succession (Jiang et al. 2021;Wang et al. 2019;Xu et al. 2021b). In addition, Liu et al. (2015) found that soil texture changed significantly during secondary forest succession; the variations in soil texture have significant influences on plant properties, root exudate composition (Vieira et al. 2020), soil oxygen content (Ferreyra et al. 2008) and soil water (Li et al. 2014), thereby further affecting soil bacterial diversity and community composition (Karimi et al. 2018;Xia et al. 2020). However, the effects of soil texture on the soil bacterial community structure during secondary forest succession have often been overlooked (Jiang et al. 2021;Liu et al. 2020;Qiang et al. 2021;Xu et al. 2021b). ...

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Secondary forest succession drives differential responses of bacterial communities and interactions rather than bacterial functional groups in the rhizosphere and bulk soils in a subalpine region

... Such methods should have a lower negative effect on growth and development of the grape vine canopy than shading of vines. The capacity of evaporating water to lower surface temperature is well understood, particularly in relation to transpirational cooling of leaves through the high latent of vaporisation (Selles et al. 2011; Villagra et al. 2011). This raises the possibility of using evaporating water to cool whole vines. ...

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Does the hydrocooling of Vitis vinifera cv. Semillon vines protect the vegetative and reproductive growth processes and vine performance against high summer temperatures?

... These modifications affect underground or above-ground parts: reduction of Leaf Area (LA) and rolling up of leaves (Slama et al., 2005). Vegetative development is very disturbed under conditions of water starvation (Ferryra et al., 2004). Several studies reported significant depressive effect of water stress on the number of leaves per plant and leaf area (Nwagbara et al., 2021, Molaaldoila et al., 2016, Samson and Helmut 2007, and AbdouRazakou et al., 2013. ...

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Agricultural Revolution for Sustainable Livelihood 8 th -11 th

... In 2011/2012, SWP decreased below −1 MPa, showing a moderate water stress in T1. Selles et al. [31] also showed that vegetative growth is affected by the amount of water applied in Crimson Seedless cultivar growing in the Aconcagua Valley. That study also reported that water applied affected not only pruning weight but also trunk growth. ...

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Response of Table Grape to Irrigation Water in the Aconcagua Valley, Chile