Written by Scott Eversgerd, Field Agronomist, for the 2018 Pioneer Agronomy Sciences Research Summary.
There are three major factors that have the greatest impact on potential freeze damage to a growing wheat crop.
Figure 1. Wheat plants with varying stages of tiller development.
Figure 2. Developing wheat head.
Table 1. Temperatures that cause injury to wheat at spring growth stages and symptoms and yield effect of spring freeze injury (Klein, 2006).
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