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Demonstration of a correlation between young leaves, apex and young bunches specific to a young grapevine cutting in the first period of its developm…

2001

<p style="text-align: justify;">The development of hardwood cutting of grapevine comprise 4 succesive phases. Phase I: first period of shoot extension. Phase II: characterized by a slow growth due to a very low activity of the terminal bud. Phase III: reactivation of the growth consecutive to a resumption of the apical activity. Phase IV: when the growth becomes maximal.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The objective of this work has been to identify the cause of the slowdown of the activity of apical bud during the phase II.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In a first experiment, we have compared the effects of three modes of defoliation applied from the b…