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This study forms part of the AGROALNEXT programme and was supported by MCIN with funding from European Union NextGenerationEU (PRTR-C17.I1). Partial funding was obtained through a research contract signed between CITA and MBG-CSIC.

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June 3, 2025
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Relationships Between Midday Stem Water Potential and Soil Water Content in Grapevines and Peach and Pear Trees

Publicated to:Agronomy-Basel. 15 (5): 1257- - 2025-05-21 15(5), DOI: 10.3390/agronomy15051257

Authors: Miras-Avalos, Jose Manuel; Araujo, Emily Silva

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Consejo Super Invest Cient MBG CSIC, Sede Santiago de Compostela, Mis Biol Galicia, Avda De Vigo S-N, Santiago De Compostela 15705, Spain - Author
Ctr Invest & Tecnol Agroalimentaria Aragon CITA, Dept Sistemas Agr Forestales & Medio Ambiente, Avda Montanana 930, Zaragoza 50059, Spain - Author

Abstract

Monitoring the water status of fruit orchards is required to optimize crop water management and determine irrigation scheduling. For this purpose, capacitance probes are commonly used to measure soil water content (theta s). However, when these probes are not calibrated, the estimates of theta s are, therefore, unreliable. Our objective was to relate the measurements of capacitance probes, without a site-specific calibration, with a reliable indicator of the water status (stem water potential at solar noon (Psi stem)) of rain-fed grapevines grown under contrasting soil management strategies (tillage and spontaneous vegetation) and of irrigated peach and pear trees. During the 2023 growing season, theta s was monitored in a peach and a pear orchard and in a vineyard in northeast Spain using capacitance sensors at three depths: 0.15, 0.30, and 0.45 m. Correlation coefficients ranged from 0.75 to 0.87 in peach trees, from 0.53 to 0.56 in pear trees, and from 0.56 to 0.90 in grapevines, depending on soil depth. These relationships were significant for both peach trees and grapevines but not for pear trees. Under the conditions of this study, uncalibrated capacitance measurements of theta s could be useful to assess grapevine and peach tree water status in real time but were limited for pear trees.

Keywords

Capacitance sensorsClean water and sanitationLeafPlantPrecision agricultureQualitScheduling deficit irrigationStem water potentialVineyardWoody crop

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Agronomy-Basel due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 68/273, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Plant Sciences.

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-21:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 1 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

    It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

    Continuing with the social impact of the work, it is important to emphasize that, due to its content, it can be assigned to the area of interest of ODS 6 - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, with a probability of 79% according to the mBERT algorithm developed by Aurora University.

    Leadership analysis of institutional authors

    There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Miras-Avalos, Jose Manuel) and Last Author (Araujo, Emily Silva).

    the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Miras-Avalos, Jose Manuel.