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Vegetative Development: Total Leaf Area and Surface Area Indexes

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Canopy management determines canopy shape and spatial leaf area distribution which in turn determines vineyard productivity. There are two indexes evaluating vineyard productivity which involve leaf development: total leaf area – LAI – and external leaf area – SA –. The first one refers to total leaf area developed per m2 of soil while SA refers to the external leaves, assuming that most of photosynthesis – 90% – is carried out by those leaves. This chapter aims to provide a feasible methodology to calculate both LAI and SA under different training systems and cultivars in order to predict vineyard productivity or/and to make decisions along the season. Relations between main leaf nerve length (cm) and leaf surface area (cm2) are given for Airén, Albariño, Barbera, Cabernet franc, Cabernet sauvignon, Chardonnay, Godello, Garnacha, Graciano, Mencía, Merlot, Petit verdot, Pinot noir, Semillon, Syrah, Tempranillo, Treixadura, Verdejo and Viognier.

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Abbreviations

A:

Area of the average leaf (e.g. cm2)

ALA:

Average leaf area per shoot (e.g. cm2 shoot−1)

Area:

Individual leaf area (e.g. cm2)

C:

Average contour canopy length (e.g. m)

CW:

Average canopy width (e.g. m)

D:

Distance between vines along the row (e.g. m)

ET0 :

Reference evapotranspiration (e.g. mm day−1)

g:

Generatrix line, which is the length between the vertex (trunk at ground level) and the perimeter point of the circumference of the base in a inverted cone shaped canopy bush (e.g. m)

G:

Length of gaps between plants (e.g. m)

GDC:

Geneva double-curtain

H:

Height of the cap head-trained bush or average canopy height of VSP (m)

L:

Area of the largest leaf (e.g. cm2)

LN:

Main nerve length (e.g. cm)

NL:

Number of leaves

R:

Radius of the sphere canopy bush or radius at base of inverted cone shaped canopy bush (e.g. m)

S:

Area of the smallest leaf (e.g. cm2)

Suffix 1:

Main leaf

Suffix 2:

Lateral leaf

VSP:

Vertical shoot-positioned

W:

Row spacing (e.g. m)

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  1. Departamento de Producción Vegetal: Fitotecnia, Grupo de investigación en Viticultura. ETSI Agrónomos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, 28040, Spain

    Patricia Sánchez-de-Miguel, Pilar Baeza, Pedro Junquera & José Ramón Lissarrague

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    Serge Delrot

  2. , IMEDEA-Dept. de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Carretera Valldemossa Km. 7,5, Palma de Mallorca, 01722, Spain

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  3. Agriculturall Research Organisation, The Volcani Center, Institute of Horticulture, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel

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Sánchez-de-Miguel, P., Baeza, P., Junquera, P., Lissarrague, J.R. (2010). Vegetative Development: Total Leaf Area and Surface Area Indexes. In: Delrot, S., Medrano, H., Or, E., Bavaresco, L., Grando, S. (eds) Methodologies and Results in Grapevine Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9283-0_3

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