Australia: New research allows vegetable growers to see climate impacts

Queensland vegetable and apple growers can peek into their climate future thanks to newly released work from the Queensland government. The Critical Temperature Threshold and Adaptation Strategies for Selected Vegetable Crops project has resulted in a website where the critical temperatures for 12 separate, mostly vegetable crops have been listed. The crops include: Temperature is a critical driver of horticultural product quality, yield, seasonality and income potential. The critical temperature thresholds (CTT) work combined world crop physiology and growth research, with local temperatures and crop productivity history. This crop, location and historical climate data knowledge was then combined with projected future temperature information and brought together graphically in a succinct summary and commentary that teases out how growing the selected crop at each production location will potentially be impacted. Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) Qld senior ...