Breeding Northern Highbush Blueberries for Climate Change
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.2023.77.4.188Keywords:
Vaccinium corymbosum, V. darrowii, heat tolerance, acclimation to coldAbstract
Due to climate change, the northern highbush blueberry production regions will be faced with increasing average temperatures and greater environmental variability. Highbush breeders will need to be cognizant of these changes and develop new cultivars that are more heat tolerant than our traditional ones and less subject to varying temperatures in the spring and fall. There is probably a readily available source of genes to meet these needs in southern highbush cultivars, which were developed by crossing wild southern blueberry species with cultivated northern highbush types.
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