Temperature

Australia, 1994

Film
Please note

Sorry, we don't have images or video for this item.

Episode number 4 of Series “Growing awareness: Factors in plant production”.
Temperature influences a plant’s growth, and plants have developed strategies to cope with extremes in temperature. In commercial plant production, statistical techniques are used to determine mean temperatures for different areas. Combining temperature and time, gives the concept of ‘heat summation’ measured in ‘degree days’. Crop Modelling uses a computer to combine data on light intensity, temperature and the rate of photosynthesis to determine optimum growing conditions.

Content notification

Our collection comprises over 70,000 moving image works, acquired and catalogued since the 1940s. As a result, some items and their descriptions may reflect outdated, offensive and possibly harmful views and opinions. ACMI is working to identify and redress such usages.

Learn more about our collection and our collection policy here. If you come across harmful content on our website that you would like to report, let us know.

How to watch

This work has not been digitised and is currently unavailable to view online. It may be possible for approved researchers to view.

Learn more about accessing our collection

Collection

In ACMI's collection

Credits

producer

Ivo Burum

production company

ABC-TV (Australia)

Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1994

Appears in

Growing awareness: Factors in plant production

Group of items

Growing awareness: Factors in plant production

Explore

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

306210

Language

English

Subject categories

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Growth (Plants)

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Plants

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Plants - Effects of temperature on

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Please note: this archive is an ongoing body of work. Sometimes the credit information (director, year etc) isn’t available so these fields may be left blank; we are progressively filling these in with further research.

Cite this work on Wikipedia

If you would like to cite this item, please use the following template: {{cite web |url=https://acmi.net.au/works/84869--temperature/ |title=Temperature |author=Australian Centre for the Moving Image |access-date=6 October 2026 |publisher=Australian Centre for the Moving Image}}