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Justino Sobreiro, Maria Isabel Patanita, Manuel Patanita and Alexandra Tomaz
The production of olive oil in Portugal and other countries of the Mediterranean region has greatly increased in recent years. Intensification efforts have focused on the growth of the planted area, but also on the increase of the orchards density and th...
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Enrico Maria Lodolini, Alberto de Iudicibus, Pompea Gabriella Lucchese, Giuseppina Las Casas, Biagio Torrisi, Elisabetta Nicolosi, Alessio Giuffrida and Filippo Ferlito
In a young super-high-density (SHD) olive orchard located in Aidone (EN), in the Sicily Region, Italy, the architectural features of five olive cultivars were studied, specifically Arbequina, Arbosana, Oliana®, Giulia®, and FS-17®. Surveys were conducted...
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Francisco Javier López-Escudero, Joaquín Romero, Rocío Bocanegra-Caro and Antonio Santos-Rufo
Developing models to understand disease dynamics and predict the risk of disease outbreaks to facilitate decision making is an integral component of plant disease management. However, these models have not yet been developed for one of the most damaging ...
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Mostafa Nafaa, Samah Mohamed Rizk, Tahany Abdel-Ghafar Ahmed Aly, Mohamed Abdel-Salam Rashed, Diaa Abd El-Moneim, Abir Ben Bacha, Mona Alonazi and Mahmoud Magdy
Soil fungi are a wide range of microorganisms that play an essential role in enhancing the available nutrients in the soil for plants. In the current study, to study the fungal association with newly reclaimed land in Egypt, 22 composite soil samples wer...
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Juan J. Cubillas, María I. Ramos, Juan M. Jurado and Francisco R. Feito
Predictive systems are a crucial tool in management and decision-making in any productive sector. In the case of agriculture, it is especially interesting to have advance information on the profitability of a farm. In this sense, depending on the time of...
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Gema Guzmán, Alberto-Jesus Perea-Moreno, José Alfonso Gómez, Miguel Ángel Cabrerizo-Morales, Gonzalo Martínez and Juan Vicente Giráldez
Soil quality is usually assessed through the measurement of selected soil properties. However, in spite of the diversity of the chosen properties, use of the soil water retention curve, like the pressure head or the specific water capacity at the inflect...
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Teresa A. Paço, Paula Paredes, Luis S. Pereira, José Silvestre and Francisco L. Santos
The SIMDualKc model was used to simulate crop water requirements for a super high density olive orchard in the region of Alentejo, Portugal. This model uses the dual crop coefficient approach to estimate and partitioning the actual crop evapotranspiratio...
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Fernando Fuentes-Peñailillo, Samuel Ortega-Farías, César Acevedo-Opazo and David Fonseca-Luengo
A study was carried out to evaluate the potential use of the two-source Shuttleworth and Wallace (SW) model to compute the intra-orchard spatial variability of actual evapotranspiration (ET) of olive trees using satellite images and ground-based climate ...
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Francisco L. Santos
Reports on the annual effects of deficit irrigation regimes on olive trees are critical in shedding light on their impacts on water use, yield, and water productivity in distinct olive growing climate regions of the world. From the account of a four-year...
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Filippo Sgroi, Matteo Candela, Anna Maria Di Trapani, Mario Foderà, Riccardo Squatrito, Riccardo Testa and Salvatore Tudisca
Sicily has a long tradition in citrus fruit cultivations that with vineyard and olive tree represent the main Mediterranean tree crops. In this paper we have evaluated the economic and financial sustainability of lemon production, both in organic farming...
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