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Seems two different things are mixed up in this thread. Acclimatization of a particular plant and of a strain (the population).
Acclimatization of an individual plant typically happens in days/weeks. Won't change the genetics as someone claimed above though (nurture vs nature...). Acclimatization is about for example being able to endure low/high temps if the temp is changed gradually over time instead of a sudden large change.
And there's acclimatizing of a population through selective breeding. This requires a large amount of plants from which you select the ones that best adapted to the environment to make offspring (major part of the work the classic IBL breeders did). How long that takes depends on the strain and the environment it needs to be grown in and can take many years.
In case of the terroir effect you change the environment to the plant, in the second case you change the plant population to the environment.
"Acclimatization does not leave a lasting impression upon the genetic mechanisms of the acclimatized organism. The adaptation of populations to change that effects evolution by the selection of genetic capability is a different process from the acclimatization of an individual." http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2983/acclimatization
Acclimatization of an individual plant typically happens in days/weeks. Won't change the genetics as someone claimed above though (nurture vs nature...). Acclimatization is about for example being able to endure low/high temps if the temp is changed gradually over time instead of a sudden large change.
And there's acclimatizing of a population through selective breeding. This requires a large amount of plants from which you select the ones that best adapted to the environment to make offspring (major part of the work the classic IBL breeders did). How long that takes depends on the strain and the environment it needs to be grown in and can take many years.
In case of the terroir effect you change the environment to the plant, in the second case you change the plant population to the environment.
"Acclimatization does not leave a lasting impression upon the genetic mechanisms of the acclimatized organism. The adaptation of populations to change that effects evolution by the selection of genetic capability is a different process from the acclimatization of an individual." http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2983/acclimatization