Recent developments in high-throughput sequencing, genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and proteomics in several forest tree species are providing tools and resources that will expedite the improvement of abiotic stress tolerance in trees. This chapter provides selected examples of how these...

Understanding and improving the cold hardiness of plants has been an endeavour that has been pursued since the onset of studying plant biology. Advances in biotechnology have allowed us to move beyond structure and physiology to identifying and understanding the role of specific genes and proteins. ...

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...