Direct and Indirect Costs of Frost in the Australian Wheatbelt

Duc-Anh An-Vo, Shahbaz Mushtaq, Bangyou Zheng, Jack T. Christopher, Scott C. Chapman and Karine Chenu

Ecological Economics, 2018, vol. 150, issue C, 122-136

Abstract: Breeding for improved reproductive frost tolerance could allow greater yield and economic benefits to be achieved by (i) reducing direct frost damage and (ii) allowing earlier sowing to reduce risks of late-season drought and/or heat stresses. We integrated APSIM-Wheat simulations with economic modelling to evaluate economic benefits of virtual genotypes with different levels of frost tolerance for the Australian wheatbelt.

Keywords: Frost; Wheat; Crop modelling; Economic modelling; National assessment; Australia; Breeding; Ideotype (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.04.008

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