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The variety of red grape aspirena (seedless) 'Crimson Seedless' can be cultivated with substantial water savings while your size and color is improved, as demonstrated a doctoral thesis read this month at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) .
Research Maria del Rosario Conesa has demonstrated the suitability of this variety to be handled with strategies of deficit irrigation (RDC) and irrigation partial drying of roots (PRD), achieving savings means 35% water, maintaining production and crop quality and potenciándose berries essential attributes, such as size and color (fundamental problem of 'Crimson Seedless', noted for its productivity).
Studies carried out for three years in a commercial plantation have also managed to increase the beneficial health bioactive compounds such as resveratrol and antioxidant capacity.
The thesis, funded by a research project of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and directed by Dr. Alejandro Pérez Pastor and Rafael Domingo Miguel, the research group Soil-Water-Plant School of Agronomic UPCT, was also a pioneer in the use of Information technology and Communications in commercial plantations through 'dataloggers' distributed by the wireless technology company WIDHOC, a spin-off of the UPCT based in the technology Park Fuente Alamo.
These studies, conducted with table grapes, will continue into other major crops in the region, such as extratemprana nectarine, apricot, peach and Paraguay through the European project LIFE + IRRIMAN (LIFE13 ENV / ES / 000539), currently underway .
Source: UPCT
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