Managing potato biodiversity to cope with frost risk in the high Andes: a modeling perspective.

Austral summer frosts in the Andean highlands are ubiquitous throughout the crop cycle, causing yield losses. In spite of the existing warming trend, climate change models forecast high variability, including freezing temperatures. As the potato center of origin, the region has a rich biodiversity w...

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Main Authors: Bruno Condori, Robert J Hijmans, Jean Francois Ledent, Roberto Quiroz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24497912/?tool=EBI