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Moringa — Climate

Metadata research draftEvidence limits

⚠️ Status: drafted from the literature survey (research/moringa/report.md). Values Unknown until source notes/full text. Apply docs/methodology/units.md (°C, mm).

Temperature

Section titled “Temperature”
  • Germination temperature response candidates: M. oleifera (10.15258/sst.2011.39.1.19, 2011) and a comparative M. oleifera + M. peregrina study (10.21608/ejbo.2021.63271.1631, 2021). Numeric optima and ranges: Unknown.
  • The 1996 horticultural review frames moringa as a tree crop with horticultural potential “in the subtropics” (10.21273/hortsci.31.5.794) — a framing candidate, not a climate envelope. No minimum, maximum, or optimum is adopted.
  • Temperature requirements by production system (household tree / orchard / high-density leaf stand): Unknown.

Frost

Section titled “Frost”
  • Frost-threshold evidence is thin in the retrieved metadata (report §3.4). Tolerance limits, organs/stages at risk, and recovery after frost: Unknown — a priority full-text and extension question for Mexico frost zones.

Drought and water

Section titled “Drought and water”
  • Drought-treatment literature exists but focuses on biochemical stress response rather than practical irrigation schedules; seasonal water totals and stage sensitivities: Unknown.
  • Salinity-of-irrigation-water candidates are stress/germination studies, not recommendations: diluted-seawater germination of M. oleifera and M. peregrina (10.22587/aeb.2018.12.3.3, 2018); M. oleifera salinity-stress physiology (10.1038/s41598-023-29954-6, 2023).
  • Waterlogging tolerance: evidence weak; Unknown.

Production-system note

Section titled “Production-system note”
  • Climate sensitivities plausibly differ by system — a coppiced leaf stand regrows after cutting, while orchard trees must carry flowers and pods through a season — but no system-specific climate limit can be stated yet: Unknown.

Mexico fit

Section titled “Mexico fit”
  • Direct lead: growth/biomass under Northeast Mexico climatic conditions (10.54167/tch.v10i3.177, 2016). Provenance/location lead: Mexico-grown material (10.1155/2015/860381, 2015) — location evidence, not a climate schedule.
  • Zone-specific extension guidance—especially for frost exposure and seasonal irrigation—remains a gap: Needs experiment and extension sourcing.

Structured-data impact

Section titled “Structured-data impact”
  • Feeds the temperature and water fields of data/crops/moringa.yaml once evidence exists.