- Alburquerque, N., García-Montiel, F., Carrillo, A. & Burgos, L. (2008). Chilling and heat requirements of sweet cherry cultivars and the relationship between altitude and the probability of satisfying the chill requirements. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 64, 162-170.
- Bennett, J. (1950). Temperature and bud rest period: Effect of temperature and exposure on the rest period of deciduous plant leaf buds investigated. California Agriculture, 4, 11-16.
- Campoy, J., Ruiz, D. & Egea, J. (2011). Dormancy in temperate fruit trees in a global warming context: A review. Scientia Horticulturae, 130, 357-372.
- Cesaraccio, C., Spano, D., Snyder, R.L. & Duce, P. (2004). Chilling and forcing model to predict bud-burst of crop and forest species. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 126, 1-13.
- Darbyshire, R., Webb, L., Goodwin, I. & Barlow, S. (2011). Winter chilling trends for deciduous fruit trees in Australia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 151, 1074-1085.
- Eccel, E., Rea, R., Caffarra, A. & Crisci, A. (2009). Risk of spring frost to apple production under future climate scenarios: the role of phenological acclimation. International Journal of Biometeorology, 53, 273-286.
- Farajzadeh, M., Rahimi, M., Kamali, G.A. & Mavrommatis, T. (2010). Modelling apple tree bud burst time and frost risk in Iran. Meteorological Applications, 17, 45-52.
- Fishman, S., Erez, A. & Couvillon, G. (1987). The temperature dependence of dormancy breaking in plants: computer simulation of processes studied under controlled temperatures. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 126, 309-321.
- FAOSTAT. (2015). Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, FAO statistical databases. http://faostat3.fao.org/browse/Q/QC/E
- Fox, D. (1981). Judging air quality model performance: A summary of the AMS workshop on dispersion models performance. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 62, 599-609.
- Greenwood, D., Verstraeten, L., Draycott, A. & Sutherland, R. (1987). Response of winter wheat to N-fertiliser: Dynamic model. Fertilizer Research, 12, 139-156.
- Javanshah, A., Alipour, H. & Hadavi, F. (2005). A model for assessing the chill units received in Kerman and Rafsanjan areas. Acta Horticulturae, 726, 221-226.
- Linvill, D.E. (1990). Calculating chilling hours and chill units from daily maximum and minimum temperature observations. HortScience, 25, 14-16.
- Luedeling, E. & Brown, P.H. (2011). A global analysis of the comparability of winter chill models for fruit and nut trees. International Journal of Biometeorology, 55, 411-421.
- Luedeling, E. & Gassner, A. (2012). Partial least squares regression for analyzing walnut phenology in California. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 158, 43-52.
- Luedeling, E. (2012). Climate change impacts on winter chill for temperate fruit and nut production: A review. Scientia Horticulturae, 144, 218-229.
- Luedeling, E., (2013). ChillR: statistical methods for phenology analysis in temperate fruit trees. R package. version 0.54.
- Luedeling, E., Gebauer, J. & Buerkert, A. (2009). Climate change effects on winter chill for tree crops with chilling requirements on the Arabian Peninsula. Climatic Change, 96, 219-237.
- MAJ, Ministry of Agriculture Jihad, Database Center. Iran (2015). http://www.maj.ir/Portal/Home/#
- Nekoonam, F., Fattahimoghadam, M. & A. Ebadi. (2012). A study of the environmental factors affecting some of the biological characteristics of flower in four iranian commercial apricot cultivars. Iranian Journal of Horticultural Science, 43, 175-187.
- Oukabli, A., Bartolini, S. & Viti, R. (2003). Anatomical and morphological study of apple (Malus X domestica Borkh.) flower buds growing under inadequate winter chilling. Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology, 78, 580-585.
- Richardson, A.D., Keenan, T.F., Migliavacca, M., Ryu, Y., Sonnentag, O. & Toomey, M. (2013). Climate change, phenology, and phenological control of vegetation feedbacks to the climate system. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 169, 156-173.
- Saure, M. (1985). Dormancy release in deciduous fruit trees. Horticultural Reviews.7, 239-300.
- Shaeffer, D.L. (1980). A model evaluation methodology applicable to environmental assessment models. Ecological Modelling, 8, 275-295.
- Weinberger, J. (1950). Chilling requirements of peach varieties. Proceedings American Society for Horticultural Science, 56, 122-128.
- Yazdanpanah, H., Ohadi, D. & Soleimani, M. (2010). Forecasting different phenological phases of apple using artificial neural network. Journal of Research in Agricultural Science, 6, 97-106.
- Zhang, J. & Taylor, C. (2011). The Dynamic model provides the best description of the chill process on ‘Sirora’ pistachio trees in Australia. HortScience, 46, 420-425.
- Zhuang, W., Gao, Z., Wang, L., Zhong, W., Ni, Z. & Zhang, Z. (2013). Comparative proteomic and transcriptomic approaches to address the active role of GA4 in Japanese apricot flower bud dormancy release. Journal of Experimental Botany, 64, 4953-4966.
|