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| Name: | chilling requirement |
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| Description: | The chilling requirement of a fruit is the minimum period of cold weather after which a fruit-bearing tree will blossom. In temperate spring tree pollination a stress period during winter is necessary to break the state of bud dormancy, i.e. lower temperatures are required, chilling requirement. Forcing temperatures, warm temperatures, are not effectives unless chilling requirements are fulfilled. |
| Type: | Combined |
| Term is: | Attribute | | Term has: | Unit | | Term unit: | s | |
