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...

This chapter describes the view that the mechanisms of deep supercooling in xylem parenchyma cells (XPCs) of trees is difficult to explain only by an isolated water droplet theory. It also presents the results of a few recent studies suggesting that deep supercooling of XPCs is associated with a...

Wintering plants may be subjected to long-term freezing at a high subzero temperature and strong acid stress due to condensation of acid pollutants under the acid snow layer in winter. Additionally, light may be a potent stress factor, especially for wintering plants after severe freeze-thawing at...

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...

This paper analyses the functional roles of some winter-accumulating proteins in the acquisition of freezing tolerance in cortical parenchyma cells of mulberry. In the cortical parenchyma cell of mulberry grown in Sapporo, Japan, many proteins are specifically accumulated during winter; these are...

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 ...