News about Flowering time

The effects of climate change on the flowering of Yoshino cherry trees in Japan

Specialties

02 Jan 2025

A study conducted in Japan analyzed the behavior of the Yoshino cherry tree, collecting data from 1948 to 2024. The aim was to understand the relationships between cold exposure, necessary for dormancy release, and heat required for bud development.

Japan: early flowering due to climate change, historical chronicles also report it

Tech management

04 Sep 2024

The city’s sakura records date back more than 1,200 years, the longest annual phenological record, or study of biological cycles, on Earth. The research on early blooms in Kyoto “has been identified and attributed to human-caused climate change,” says Gonzalez.

New markers for the genetic selection of flowering time in cherry trees

Breeding

03 Sep 2024

The aim of an investigation conducted in the Czech Republic was to identify molecular markers that could be relied upon to predict the onset of flowering in sweet cherries by creating an assay that analysed the identified molecular markers in a single reaction.