In a study conducted to determine the relationship between CBF genes and low-temperature (LT) tolerance of barley (Hordeum vulgare), results showed that: (1) barley has a large and complex CBF family; (2) the barley CBF family is representative in both size and complexity of CBF families of other...

This paper briefly describes frost impact on potato production and the changes in plants during cold acclimatization. It reports the latest results on the ectopic expression of Arabidopsis thaliana CBF1 (AtCBF1), its effect on enhancing freezing tolerance in wild and domesticated potato species via ...

This paper describes on the cloning of barley Vrn-H1 and Vrn-H2 candidate genes and characterizes their structure and function to study the genetics of vernalization. The impact of the advances made in Arabidopsis thaliana research, knowledge in barley growth habit and winter hardiness, and...

This book contains 16 papers presenting the latest research findings on plant freezing and chilling stress from major laboratories around the world. They focus on various aspects of molecular genetics and, in many cases, the use of transgenic plants to further our understanding of plant cold...

A study was conducted to investigate the changes in phenotype and transcript profile of transgenic Populus constitutively expressing CBF1 from Arabidopsis thaliana (AtCBF1). Ectopic expression of AtCBF1 was sufficient to significantly increase the freezing tolerance (FT) of non-acclimatized leaves...

This paper describes the molecular processes of drought and cold stress response and tolerance in plants. Functions of drought- and cold-inducible genes, regulation of their expression, and signal perception and signal transduction pathways in drought stress response and tolerance in plants are...

This paper reviews the recent experiments designed for the further understanding of the CBF cold response pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana and tomato. The studies with Arabidopsis thaliana focus on determining the extent to which the CBF cold response pathway configures the low-temperature...

This paper discusses the genetic identification of low-temperature tolerance loci in Triticeae, the Triticeae CBF gene family, strategy for testing whether the CBFs form the molecular basis of NT QLtt-1, and the structure of the genomic clones encompassing the barley 5H CBF genes.

This paper examines the effect of prior high-temperature exposure on the susceptibility of rice (cv. Kirara 397) seedlings to chilling injury, and evaluates the changes in L-ascorbate peroxidase (APX) activity and induction of transcription after exposure to high temperature in order to determine...

This paper focuses on the physiological aspects associated with freezing tolerance in moss Physcomitrella patens at cellular levels, including ABA responsiveness, organelle morphology and accumulation of soluble sugars and hydrophilic proteins. The effects environmental stresses (e.g. cold and...