Harnessing crop wild diversity for climate change adaptation

AJ Cortés, F López-Hernández - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Warming and drought are reducing global crop production with a potential to substantially
worsen global malnutrition. As with the green revolution in the last century, plant genetics …

Bud endodormancy in deciduous fruit trees: advances and prospects

Q Yang, Y Gao, X Wu, T Moriguchi, S Bai… - Horticulture …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Bud endodormancy is a complex physiological process that is indispensable for the survival,
growth, and development of deciduous perennial plants. The timely release of …

Why trees grow at night

R Zweifel, F Sterck, S Braun, N Buchmann… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The timing of diel stem growth of mature forest trees is still largely unknown, as empirical
data with high temporal resolution have not been available so far. Consequently, the effects …

Ecosystem warming extends vegetation activity but heightens vulnerability to cold temperatures

AD Richardson, K Hufkens, T Milliman, DM Aubrecht… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Shifts in vegetation phenology are a key example of the biological effects of climate change,–
. However, there is substantial uncertainty about whether these temperature-driven trends …

Temperature and photoperiod drive spring phenology across all species in a temperate forest community

DFB Flynn, EM Wolkovich - New Phytologist, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate predictions of spring plant phenology with climate change are critical for
projections of growing seasons, plant communities and a number of ecosystem services …

Photoperiod and temperature as dominant environmental drivers triggering secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers

JG Huang, Q Ma, S Rossi, F Biondi… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Wood formation consumes around 15% of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions per year and
plays a critical role in long-term sequestration of carbon on Earth. However, the exogenous …

Winter temperatures predominate in spring phenological responses to warming

AK Ettinger, CJ Chamberlain, I Morales-Castilla… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Research on woody plant species highlights three major cues that shape spring
phenological events: chilling, forcing and photoperiod. Increasing research on the …

Performance of smoothing methods for reconstructing NDVI time-series and estimating vegetation phenology from MODIS data

Z Cai, P Jönsson, H Jin, L Eklundh - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Many time-series smoothing methods can be used for reducing noise and extracting plant
phenological parameters from remotely-sensed data, but there is still no conclusive …

A genetic network mediating the control of bud break in hybrid aspen

RK Singh, JP Maurya, A Azeez, P Miskolczi… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In boreal and temperate ecosystems, temperature signal regulates the reactivation of growth
(bud break) in perennials in the spring. Molecular basis of temperature-mediated control of …

[HTML][HTML] Calibrating vegetation phenology from Sentinel-2 using eddy covariance, PhenoCam, and PEP725 networks across Europe

F Tian, Z Cai, H Jin, K Hufkens, H Scheifinger… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Vegetation phenology obtained from time series of remote sensing data is relevant for a
range of ecological applications. The freely available Sentinel-2 imagery at a 10 m spatial …