Strategic Research Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Strategic Research Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Challenges of Climate Change in Horticulture and Strategies to Adapt to Them

Document Type : Review article

Authors
1 Professor of Shiraz University
2 Professors of , Tehran University
3 Department of Horticultural Science, School of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
4 Professors of Tabriz University
5 Professors of Shiraz University
6 Professors of , Ferdowsi University Mashhad
7 Associate Professor of Sanati Isfahan University
10.22047/srjasnr.2024.452564.1098
Abstract
So far, there has not been a comprehensive study on the effect of climate change and global warming on horticultural products such as fruits, flowers, vegetables, and medicinal plants. Despite this, the few available data show that these changes are more effective on fruit trees, especially temperate and semi-tropical fruit trees. Climate change and global warming affect fruit production and phenology, cold requirement, temperature stress, pollination, water and soil status of orchards, pests and diseases, and fruit quality as well as boundaries of fruit tree cultivation. The strategies to cope with these difficulties are breeding cultivars with low cold requirement, cooling to compensate for cold requirement, dealing with hot winters and early warming, using appropriate rootstocks, avoiding entering dormancy, managing orchard water and soil, using new technologies, using chemical compounds and growth regulators, creating crop diversity, using different types of greenhouses, Attention to plant migration, modeling of climate, zoning and changing the cultivation pattern. Challenges of climate change and global warming in horticulture and strategies to adapt to them, are fully discussed in this article. 
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