3.2. Effects of climate change on crop phenology
In the life cycle of annual crops, the timing of phenological events
is critical for crop yields. Two critical events are the length of the
Fig. 1.period from sowing to flowering, known as days to flowering, (DTF)
and days to maturity (DTM). Across all crops in the baseline (1961–
2010) period, there were no significant differences in DTF between
the soil types (Fig. 2).