Climate change is making cereal cultivation viable in areas of Europe that were previously ruled out due to their extreme conditions. But the arctic climate is changing. Researchers from five countries in the Northern Periphery and Arctic are involved in OatFrontiers, a pan-European interregional project.
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Hrannar Smári Hilmarsson, head of OatFrontiers in Iceland, explains that, in participating countries, they have tested around 400 varieties of the cereal in various control plantations, with different photoperiods and stress factors during cultivation. “We are at Gunnarsholt, in the south of Iceland, at the 64th parallel north.
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