Effect of frost injury on Pinot Noir

Research on the response of vines to frost injury in spring is necessarily opportunistic and reported infrequently. This article provides insights from a study led by the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture to investigate the impact of early spring frost injury at nodes of Pinot Noir on fruitfulness and growth-stage lag. The methods, including a visual scale to score severity of frost injury severity, can be applied for standardised data collection in future studies.