Various host-vector-pathogen systems will be affected in different ways by particular aspects of climate. The likelihood of a particular class of climatic event causing or leading to an increase (or decrease) in vector-borne disease outbreaks will depend heavily on the ecology of the vectors (such...

This chapter reviews epidemiological and physiological evidence to characterize current weather-related health impacts on public health and identifies the most susceptible subgroups of the population, as well as other risk factors that heighten vulnerability to temperature-related exposure. Public...

This book describes the direct and indirect global impacts of climate change. It includes 30 chapters divided into 7 parts. Part I (Introduction) includes 2 chapters describing anthropocene and the impact of climate change on global health. Part II includes 4 chapters focusing on the primary health ...

This chapter discusses the use of cold treatment to control quarantine pests, the benefit and disadvantages of cold treatment, and cold resistance in pests (at different life stages).

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...

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 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 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 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...