This is a special form of artificial irrigation of vineyards (i.e. "partial root desiccation"). Also known as "reciprocal irrigation", this method was developed for viticulture by the Australian University of Adelaide and the CSIRO research institute from the mid-1990s onwards. Based on the fact that water stress has or can...
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