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    • Moreno Alías, Inmaculada; Trentacoste, Eduardo R.; Gómez del Campo, María; Beyá Marshall, Víctor Manuel; Rapoport, Hava F. (International Society for Horticultural Science, 2018)
      Olive lree productivity is highly respons1ve to radiation condit10ns, so understanding the responses of the developmental processes that determine yield, among these inflorescence and flower differentiation, is essenllal ...
    • Mora González, Marcos; Schnettler, Berta; Lobos, Germán; Geldes, Cristián; Boza Martínez, Sofía; Lapo, María del Carmen; Paz, Ruth (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 2020)
      This study aimed to identify the attributes influencing the purchase decision process of the olive oil consumer belonging to "Millennials" in the Metropolitan Region, Chile. The method includes data collection from 408 ...
    • Aldunce Ide, Paulina; León Stewart, Alejandro (2007)
      Purpose – This paper seeks to propose measures to improve management of rainfall-related disasters in Chile. Design/methodology/approach – This research was carried out as a case study in the semi-arid region of Chile ...
    • Tejada Alvarado, José Jesús; Meléndez Mori, Jegnes Benjamín; Vilca Valqui, Nuri Carito; Huaman Huaman, Eyner; Lapiz Culquia, Yoiner K.; Neri, Juan C.; Prat del Río, María Loreto; Oliva, Manuel (IOS Press, 2022)
      BACKGROUND: Blueberry production has generated great commercial expectations, therefore for its agricultural expansion it is necessary to overcome the challenges at the time of mass propagation. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the ...
    • Covarrubias Peña, José Ignacio; Rombolà, Adamo Domenico (Springer, 2015)
      In many important viticultural areas of the Mediterranean basin, plants often face prolonged periods of scarce iron (Fe) availability in the soil. The objective of the present work was to perform a comparative analysis of ...
    • Sánchez, Miguel A.; Cid, Pablo; Navarrete, Humberto; Aguirre, Carlos; Chacón, Gustavo; Salazar, Erika; Prieto, Humberto (Wiley & Sons, 2016)
      The potential impact of genetically modified (GM) crops on biodiversity is one of the main concerns in an environmental risk assessment (ERA). The likelihood of outcrossing and pollen-mediated gene flow from GM crops and ...
    • Silveira, Ana Cecilia; Oyarzún, Dennise; Escalona Contreras, Víctor (Wiley, 2018-06)
      Thompson Seedless (TS) and Black (BS) grapes sanitised with 2, 4, 6, 8 mg L-1 O-3 or NaOCl (100 mg L-1) were stored 21days at 5 degrees C. Ozonated water stimulated the respiration rate, especially after 5 days of storage, ...
    • Neira, José; Ortiz, Mauricio; Morales, Luis; Acevedo Hinojosa, Edmundo (Inst Investigaciones Agropecuarias, 2015)
      Oxygen is an important element for plant growth. Reducing its concentration in the soil affects plant physiological processes such as nutrient and water uptake as well as respiration, the redox potential of soil elements ...
    • Machuca, A.; Odio, A.; Tapia, M. L.; Silveira, A. C.; Escalona Contreras, Víctor (International Society for Horticultural Science, 2018)
      Safety of fresh-cut products is largely affected by the microbial load of raw material. In this sense, a hydroponic production system allows to reduce microbial contamination, as long as the quality of the used water on ...
    • Guajardo, Verónica; Hinrichsen, Patricio; Munoz Schick, Carlos (International Society for Horticultural Science, 2017)
      Fruit breeding programs usually use controlled hand pollination among cultivars and advanced selections for obtaining segregating populations to select new cultivars. In sweet cherries, however, sometimes in controlled p ...
    • Shinya, P.; Contador, L.; Predieri, S.; Rubio, P.; Infante Espiñeira, Rodrigo (Elsevier, 2013)
      tThe peach melting flesh cultivars ‘Ryan Sun’ and ‘Sweet September’ and the non-melting, ‘Kakamas’ wereharvested according to their visually assessed ground color and divided into four, ripeness classes (M1,M2, M3, and ...
    • Schlich, P.; Medel Maraboli, Marcela; Urbano, C.; Parr, W. V. (Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology Inc., 2015)
      Background and Aims: Complexity is a multidimensional and poorly defined term that is frequently employed to characterise wine sensorially. The present study aimed to investigate the sensorial nature of perceived complexity ...
    • Parr, Wendy V.; Grose, Claire; Hedderley, Duncan; Medel Marabolí, Marcela; Masters, Oliver; Días Araujo, Leandro; Valentín, Dominique (Elsevier, 2020)
      Quality and complexity are abstract terms employed frequently to describe a wine’s overall attributes. In the present study, we investigated: (i) attributes driving wine professionals’ judgments of quality and complexity ...
    • Boza Martínez, Sofía; Marcos Cubillos, Gonzalo; Cortés Belmar, Maruja; Mora González, Marcos (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Facultad Ciencias Agrarías, 2016)
      This research aims to contribute to the understanding of the attitudes related to public support programs of micro and small farmers in the central zone of Chile. For this, it was conducted a survey of 126 entrepreneurs ...
    • Moletto Lobos, Ítalo; Mattar Bader, Cristián; Barichivich, Jonathan (MDPI, 2020)
      Farmers in the temperate zone of southern Chile have started to irrigate historically rainfed pastures during recent years to reduce dairy productivity losses against increasingly severe summer droughts. The lack of ...
    • Laurie, V. Felipe; Salazar, Sofía; Campos, M. Ignacia; Cáceres Mella, Alejandro; Peña Neira, Álvaro (American Society for Enology and Viticulture., 2014)
      Microoxygenation (MOX) is a winemaking technique used with the aim of enhancing certain chemical and sensory wine features. Theoretically, by infusing small volumes of oxygen in a continuous way, the quality of the product ...
    • Fichet Lagos, Thomas Gilbert; Chamorro, Jorge; Riquelme Escobar, Alejandro (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Fac. Agronomía, 2012-04)
      Peteca rind pitting as influenced by proline content in winter lemon albedo. Cien. Inv. Agr. 39(1): 201-209. One of the most important problems in lemon growing is the physiological disorder known as "peteca", which is ...
    • Fanzone, Martín; Zamora, Fernando; Jofré, Viviana; Assof, Mariela; Gómez Cordovés, Carmen; Peña Neira, Álvaro (2012)
      BACKGROUND: Knowledge of the chemical composition of wine and its association with the grape variety/cultivar is of paramount importance in oenology and a necessary tool for marketing. Phenolic compounds are very important ...
    • Obreque Slier, Elías; Peña Neira, Álvaro; López Solís, Remigio; Ramírez Escudero, Cristián; Zamora Marín, Fernando (2007)
      Enological tannins are widely used in winemaking process to improve different characteristics of wines. A wide spectrum of enological tannins is now available on the market; however, the tannins’ chemical nature and ...
    • Fanzone, Martín; Peña Neira, Álvaro; Jofré, Viviana; Assof, Mariela; Zamora, Fernando (2010)
      Malbec is a wine grape variety that is now mainly produced in Mendoza and considered to be the emblematic cultivar of Argentina. Forty-four phenolic compounds, including hydroxybenzoic and hydroxycinnamic acids and ...