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Phenology of Temperate Fruit Trees

2015; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-14200-5_6

2192-1210

Fernando Ramírez, Jose Kallarackal,

Plant Reproductive Biology

In terms of productivity, climatic change may affect temperate fruit trees differently according to the production system, species, cultivar and area (Campoy et al. 2011). Global warming has caused apple tree phenology to change in various parts of the world. This is the case of apples which begin flowering 3–4 days earlier than other fruit trees in Lithuania (Romanovskaja and Bakšiene 2009). ‘Golden Delicious’ apple trees have flowered 7–9 days earlier at Conthey (Switzerland), Angers and Nîmes (France) and Forli (Italy) regardless of regional differences since the end of the 1980s (Legave et al. 2009a). Acceleration of bud initiation and flowering can be regarded as a sign of temperature increase (Fujisawa and Kobayashi 2007). The beginning of apple growing season is getting earlier due to increasing temperature and flowering date in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The flowering season has become 6.3 days earlier for the past 30 years (Fujisawa and Kobayashi 2010).