Mar 01, 2021
Isn’t Soil Moisture Good Enough to Estimate Crop Stress?
Cleartail Admin
For decades growers and researchers have used soil moisture to guide irrigation of crops. It is logical that since plants get their water from the soil. But does the soil moisture really give a good estimate of the water status of the crop? Sometime yes, and sometimes no. There are several reasons for that especially […]
Feb 23, 2021
FloraPulse featured on The Packer
Cleartail Admin
Ken Shackel, professor/pomologist at the University of California, Davis, is analyzing a sensor from Davis-based FloraPulse Co. developed by Cornell University. Read more here: https://www.thepacker.com/news/sustainability/water-conservation-thrives-technology-and-innovation
Jan 25, 2021
How to Estimate or Measure the Water Status of Plants in the Field?
Cleartail Admin
Many different interacting factors affecting supply (soil moisture), demand (weather) or plant factors (leaf area, canopy display) that combine to affect water stress in plants. Since there are so many indirect and interacting factors involved, the plant integrates all of them. So, measuring any one is inadequate. So how best to estimate or measure it? […]
Jan 11, 2021
Letter from FloraPulse founder Dr. Alan Lakso to plant researchers
Cleartail Admin
We wanted to let you know that after more than a decade of research at Cornell then development into a practical tool by our FloraPulse Co., the FloraPulse microtensiometer is now commercially available (see https://www.florapulse.com/ ). It is a microchip version of the classic tensiometer principle designed to be embedded in trunks or large branches […]