Breeding trait · Cross-cutting

Early maturity

Heritable crop trait by which a plant completes its growth cycle in a shorter period, allowing it to escape late-season drought or heat.

Definition source: AGROVOC (precocity, c_2435 / early maturation, c_28619)

Synonyms

early-maturing

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

none

Relations

addresses Drought
addresses Shifted rainfall seasonality
applies-to Cereal

Counts as adaptation

Breeding trait addresses a climate hazard, OR is part of a qualifying intervention, OR produces a hazard-conditioned outcome; NOT adaptation when selected purely for yield, quality, or market gain unrelated to a climate stressor.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

TRT_07 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/TRT_07
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/TRT_07)