Journal of Horticulture
Open Access
ISSN: 2376-0354
ISSN: 2376-0354
Soni Joshi
India
Research Article
Implications of Changing Climate on Productivity of Temperate Fruit Crops with Special Reference to Apple
Author(s): Ratna Rai, Soni Joshi, Sumana Roy, Omveer Singh, Malay Samir and Anil ChandraRatna Rai, Soni Joshi, Sumana Roy, Omveer Singh, Malay Samir and Anil Chandra
Winter chill is essential for most of the plants that fall dormant in the winter in order to avoid frost damage and do not resume growth until a certain amount of winter chill has accumulated for fulfilling their chilling requirement. Climate change is likely to affect chilling requirement of temperate fruit crops significantly and therefore, the opportunity to meet this requirement will be reduced as the climate becomes warmer. Increase in average global temperature would move the existing plant species and varieties to new latitudinal belts with favourable climates. It is, therefore, possible that crops that are used to be productive in one area may no longer be so or the other way round. The resultant of these climate changes are clearly apparent in the shifting of apple cultivation from lower elevations to higher altitudes in India.
Insufficient chilling greatly influences.. Read More»
DOI:
10.4172/2376-0354.1000135
