{"id":8685,"date":"2016-10-12T22:56:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T02:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8685"},"modified":"2016-10-12T22:56:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T02:56:42","slug":"israeli-scientists-create-heat-resistant-apricot-trees-with-some-help-from-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/israeli-scientists-create-heat-resistant-apricot-trees-with-some-help-from-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli scientists create heat-resistant apricot trees with some help from South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Haaretz<\/em> reported this week that scientists in Israel have produced a heat-resistant variety of apricot that does well in hotter conditions. \u00a0This is expected to do well in future warmer climates. \u00a0You can read the article at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/science\/1.746880\">https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/science\/1.746880<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting twist to the story is described here: &#8220;Support for their work came from South Carolina, where team had a mutant form of peach that eschewed dormancy break entirely. The trees were not sensitive to the environmental temperature (the scientist explained). \u00a0The mutation turned out to be in the same area that the Israelis had mapped in the apricot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Apricots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8686\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Apricots-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"apricots\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Apricots-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Apricots-183x138.jpg 183w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Apricots.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haaretz reported this week that scientists in Israel have produced a heat-resistant variety of apricot that does well in hotter conditions. \u00a0This is expected to do well in future warmer climates. \u00a0You can read the article at\u00a0https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/science\/1.746880. One interesting twist to the story is described here: &#8220;Support for their work came from South Carolina, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-fruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8688,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions\/8688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}