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June 9, 2025Plant and SoilOpen Access

Soil moisture content and plant health monitoring under different inter-row cropping vineyard

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ÁHÁgota HorelICImre CseresnyésIZImre Zagyva

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Randomized trial shows impacts of soil management on plant health in vineyards, indicating potential benefits of cover crops.

Key Points

  • This study aims to investigate the effects of different soil management techniques on soil moisture and plant health in an organic vineyard.
  • Conducted a three-year study with two vineyard treatments: shallow tillage to cover crops (CC) and permanent grass cover (GR).
  • Monitored soil water content and plant health indicators including NDVI, PRI, fAPAR, and LAI at various slope positions.
  • Analyzed relationships between plant parameters and specific soil attributes like total N and pH.
  • The CC site demonstrated significantly higher average soil moisture content (SWC) at both 15 cm and 40 cm depths compared to the GR site (p < 0.05).
  • Soil heterogeneity significantly influenced NDVI, PRI, and fAPAR values (p < 0.001).
  • The cover crop treatment resulted in a higher leaf area index (LAI) compared to the grass cover (p < 0.01).

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Horel et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a63d5fa94d8bae735b36a2chttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07612-2
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