ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Frost Damage Grade Index and Risk
Regionalization of the Main Cultivars
of Passion Fruit in Fujian Province
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Fujian Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Fuzhou 350028, China
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Fujian Institute of Meteorological Science, Fuzhou 350028, China
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Zhangzhou Meteorological bureau of Fujian, Zhangzhou 363001, China
Submission date: 2023-08-03
Final revision date: 2023-11-30
Acceptance date: 2023-12-16
Online publication date: 2024-05-06
Publication date: 2024-06-27
Corresponding author
Kai Yang
Fujian Key Laboratory of Severe Weather; Fujian Institute of Meteorological Science, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2024;33(5):5391-5406
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ABSTRACT
Low temperature and frost damage in winter pose a major threat to the production of passion
fruit in Fujian Province. Determining the suitability regionalization of cultivation is important.
This research combined the methods of historical disaster inversion, orchard positioning observations,
and geographical displacement experiments to conduct the regionalization research. Fifty-two samples
of passion fruit cold and freezing disasters were obtained, and mathematical statistical methods
were used to establish frost damage grade indicators of the main varieties of passion fruit based
on the daily extreme minimum temperature (Tmin). The frost damage grade index of Passion Fruit No. 1
and No. 3 was divided into four grades: mild, moderate, severe, and most severe. Verifying the disaster
samples taken from the literature and the results of artificial climate chamber disaster experiments,
the accuracy rate was 81.8%, so the grade index is of practical significance. According to the results of
risk regionalization of cold and freezing injury of the main varieties of passion fruit, the regions with
no or mild cold and freezing injury were mainly distributed in the coastal areas of Fujian Province,
which is thus the region with the lowest risk of cold and freezing injury for planting passion fruit.