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Estimating Bulk Stomatal Conductance in Grapevine Canopies

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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.839378

Keywords

bulk boundary layer conductance; net radiation; transpiration; vineyard water-use models; vine water stress; vapor pressure deficit

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  1. Jas. Hennessy & Co. (Cognac, France)
  2. French National Research Agency (ANR) in the frame of the Investments for the future Programme, within the Cluster of Excellence COTE [ANR-10-LABX-45]
  3. Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bordeaux (CIVB)
  4. Conseil Regional d'Aquitaine
  5. Bordeaux University through LabEx
  6. Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRAE)

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Grapevines regulate transpiration by adjusting their water conductance mechanism in response to environmental changes. A simplified method based on the crop canopy energy flux model is introduced to determine bulk stomatal conductance. This method provides accurate estimation of grapevine conductance and is useful for estimating vine transpiration in water use models.
In response to changes in their environments, grapevines regulate transpiration using various physiological mechanisms that alter conductance of water through the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Expressed as bulk stomatal conductance at the canopy scale, it varies diurnally in response to changes in vapor pressure deficit and net radiation, and over the season to changes in soil water deficits and hydraulic conductivity of both the soil and plant. To help with future characterization of this dynamic response, a simplified method is presented for determining bulk stomatal conductance based on the crop canopy energy flux model by Shuttleworth and Wallace using measurements of individual vine sap flow, temperature and humidity within the vine canopy, and estimates of net radiation absorbed by the vine canopy. The methodology presented respects the energy flux dynamics of vineyards with open canopies, while avoiding problematic measurements of soil heat flux and boundary layer conductance needed by other methods, which might otherwise interfere with ongoing vineyard management practices. Based on this method and measurements taken on several vines in a non-irrigated vineyard in Bordeaux France, bulk stomatal conductance was estimated on 15-minute intervals from July to mid-September 2020 producing values similar to those presented for vineyards in the literature. Time-series plots of this conductance show significant diurnal variation and seasonal decreases in conductance associated with increased vine water stress as measured by predawn leaf water potential. Global sensitivity analysis using non-parametric regression found transpiration flux and vapor pressure deficit to be the most important input variables to the calculation of bulk stomatal conductance, with absorbed net radiation and bulk boundary layer conductance being much less important. Conversely, bulk stomatal conductance was one of the most important inputs when calculating vine transpiration, emphasizing the usefulness of characterizing its dynamic response for the purpose of estimating vine canopy transpiration in water use models.

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