Declining chilling and its impact on temperate perennial crops

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 91, Issue , 2013, Pages 48-62

  Atkinson, C J ^a   Brennan, R M ^b   Jones, H G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthesis; Bud break; Climate change; Dormancy induction; Floral initiation; Perennial plants

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROMETEOROLOGY; BUDBURST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PLANT; CROP YIELD; DORMANCY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOWERING; FRUIT PRODUCTION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84876323939     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2013.02.004     Document Type: Review

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