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Fruit clusters gradually become the primary sink for photosynthates during development. (iv) The number of berries that set and continue to grow is determined shortly after flowering. Some growers perform a top pruning around this time to reduce the carbohydrate competition between vegetative and reproductive growth. The reproductive stage occurs during the flowering process of the inflorescences. (iii) Vegetative and reproductive growth occur concurrently. Initial vegetative growth is supported by the internal carbohydrate reserves until the vine achieves a net carbohydrate gain around flowering. A period of intense vegetative growth follows after budburst. (ii) The buds undergo a dormancy phase in winter and this breaks in spring. Grapevines initiate inflorescence primordia in the axial buds of each shoot in the summer of the year prior to which they flower. The key attributes required of a grapevine model include: (i) A reproductive cycle from inflorescence initiation to harvest, lasting about 15–18 months. The grapevine reaches reproductive maturity in 4–5 years after planting, and may remain economically productive for 20–60 years depending on management. There have been a large number of scientific studies from genomics to production practices carried out on grapevines over the years. Because of its global economic importance and being found in diverse growing climates, the grapevine has emerged as a model perennial fruit crop species. It has played an important cultural role in many parts of the world. Grapevine ( Vitis vinifera) is one of the most economically important perennial fruit crops worldwide, used both as table grapes and for wine production ( OIV 2020). The research on perennial crop models lags behind the annual crop models largely owing to the physiological complexity that regulate yield formation and the difficulties and high cost of data collection. 2014), less work has been undertaken on the perennial crops ( Santos et al. However, in contrast with annual crops where a large amount of modelling work has been undertaken on assessing the yield and adaptation options under climate change ( Schlenker and Roberts 2009 Challinor et al. As such, reliable models for evaluating options at establishment and for ongoing management would be valuable aids for decision-making. There are fewer opportunities to change location, genotype and plant configuration to adapt to climate compared with annual crops. Perennial crops represent a long-term investment by any landowner. The modelling framework developed in this work can also be used for other perennial fruit crops. The model also reproduced the dynamics of dry matter and carbohydrate reserve of different organs, and the wide variation in yield components caused by seasonal weather conditions and pruning regimes. The calculated seasonal dynamics of light interception by the row and alley were consistent with field observations. The model captured the variations in the timing of measured budburst, flowering and véraison over 15 seasons across New Zealand for five different varieties. The model was calibrated and tested extensively using four detailed data sets. bunch number, berry number and berry fresh weight. Weather conditions and source–sink ratio at critical developmental stages were used to determine potential grapevine yield components, e.g. The carbohydrate arbitrator was enhanced to consider both sink strength and sink priority to reflect carbohydrate reserve as a concurrent competing sink. The canopy microclimate module within APSIM Next Generation was extended to allow for row crop light interception. The simulated grapevine phenological cycle starts with the dormancy phase triggered by a critical photoperiod in autumn, and then goes through the subsequent phenophases sequentially and finally returns to dormancy for a new cycle. Modules for phenology, light interception, carbohydrate allocation, yield formation and berry composition were adapted or added into APSIM Next Generation to represent the nature of fruit-bearing vines.
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A new model for grapevines ( Vitis vinifera) is the first perennial fruit crop model using the Agricultural Production System sIMulator (APSIM) Next Generation framework.