News about Climate change

Chilean project aims to predict flowering date to curb climate change

Press review

06 Mar 2024

The Fondecyt 2024 project, assigned by Professor Eduardo Fernández, will be implemented nationwide, with around 40 orchards and also with consultants and research centres related to the topic, creating a collaboration strategy directly applicable to their orchards.

Monitoring bud temperatures to prevent damage from spring frosts

Press review

29 Feb 2024

Knowing the critical temperature at which buds are killed is crucial for taking timely action against frost. Cold hardiness models use air temperature as a predictive factor for specific critical temperatures of the cultivar.

Challenges and future of the cherry: from varieties to climate, insights from Chile on today's industry

Tech management

29 Feb 2024

Analysing all the challenges of the cherry industry is ambitious. In this article, Jean Paul Millan addresses the crucial issues of the sector. From sustainability to post-harvest, the need to evolve in a rapidly changing sector emerges.

Washington State University assessments to combat the impact of cold, wind and snow on fruit set

Tech management

27 Feb 2024

Low temperatures will prolong ovule viability and stigma receptivity, yet also slow pollen germination and pollen tube growth. Research shows that apple and sweet cherry pollen germination can occur with temperatures as low as 41 F, depending on genotype.

Difficulties in Canada: weather events jeopardise the entire 2024 season

Press review

14 Feb 2024

The B.C. Cherry Association says last month's polar vortex led to a meeting of members declaring that they would meet with provincial and federal government officials to discuss the situation the industry is facing.

US crisis continues: Department of Agriculture indicates losses close to 50% in the Washington area in 2023

Press review

06 Feb 2024

Sweet cherry growers in central and eastern Washington faced devastating challenges throughout the 2023 season. Unusual weather patterns caused growers losses of more than 50%, according to the United State Department of Agriculture.

Putrescine makes trees more resistant to late frosts, while reducing the risk of cracking

Tech management

17 Jan 2024

The results showed that putrescine-treated buds decreased the overall malondialdehyde content (and thus the level of oxidative stress), while the rate of fruit set increased during most of the growing seasons evaluated.

Despite a difficult situation, interest in cherry trees is growing in Romagna

Production Press review

28 Dec 2023

Thanks to the investments made by Apofruit and Agrintesa, according to the latest CIA report, Romagna has almost doubled its cherry tree areas in just 10 years, bucking the national trend and that of its cousins from Vignola.

Double fruits and deep sutures: climate change puts cherry quality at risk

Crop protection

21 Dec 2023

The work of Chilean researchers at the University of Concepcion is aimed at studying the environmental and physiological variables that regulate the induction of double fruit and deep sutures in the cherry tree in order to propose new solutions to control this physiopathy.

Research from Spain investigates the relationship between the wild cherry tree and the brown bear

Press review

19 Dec 2023

The relevance of the cherry for the brown bear lies in the fact that it is the first fleshy fruit to ripen at the start of the hyperphagia period, when the availability of other fruits is limited, and its relevance as a resource for the bear has increased in recent times.