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Climate change and Australian wheat yield

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We believe that Nicholls's conclusion1 — that reduced frost frequency has been predominantly responsible for 30-50% of the 45% increase in average Australian wheat yield between 1952 and 1992 — is not correct.

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  1. CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia

    Roger Gifford, John Angus, Damian Barrett, John Passioura, Howard Rawson, Richard Richards & Maarten Stapper

  2. CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, GPO Box 664, 2601, ACT, Australia

    Jeff Wood

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Gifford, R., Angus, J., Barrett, D. et al. Climate change and Australian wheat yield. Nature 391, 448–449 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/35056

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