JXB Advance Access originally published online on October 23, 2009
Journal of Experimental Botany 2009 60(15):4215-4216; doi:10.1093/jxb/erp311
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New insights on the effects of heat stress on crops
Department of Plant Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
* E-mail: nigel.halford@bbsrc.ac.uk
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Those of us working and living in temperate countries often disregard the effects of heat stress on crop yield and quality, possibly to the frustration of our colleagues from hotter parts of the world. That is changing as global warming is predicted to increase the frequency and severity of heat-waves in temperate zones (Semenov, 2007; Semenov and Halford, 2009) but the paper from Ginzberg and colleagues published in this issue (Ginzberg et al., 2009) reminds us that heat stress is